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mrissa.
The books I'm reading:
All of them? Really? Do I have to?
Okay, the list starts with John Travlos, A Pictorial Dictionary of Athens, Erika Simons, Festivals of Attica, Edelstein & Edelstein, Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies, an edited volume called Nothing to Do with Dionysos, and another one called Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East.
Stuff what I am not reading for research qua research: the Oxford World's Classics Myths from Mesopotamia, volume one of the Penguin Classics Tales of the 1001 Nights, a terrible "popular" biography of Frances Kemble, 19th century actress and writer, and the JACT Cambridge Greek Anthology.
Stuff what I am allegedly reading for pleasure: K.S. Augustin, War Games, Daniel O'Malley, The Rook (which I am about to give up on, for it is not improving), Phyllis Ann Karr, Frostflower and Thorn, Gemma Files, A Rope of Thorns and Joanna Russ, To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction.
Books I'm writing: My thesis. Some noodly things for my own satisfaction.
The book I love the most:
Just one? Bzzt! Wrong question!
Here's a list of authors: Elizabeth Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ursula K LeGuin, Amanda Downum, Tamora Pierce, Nicola Griffiths, Daniel Fox/Chaz Brenchley, Barbara Hambly, Michelle Sagara, Terry Pratchett, Rosemary Kirstein, P.C. Hodgell, Marie Brennan, Dorothy L Sayers, Samuel R Delany.
Here's a list of history books: James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love, Peter Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, Miri Rubin, The Hollow Crown, Dan Cruickshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Marcus Rediker, Slave Ship: A Human History, Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts.
I could go on.
The last book I received as a gift:
Not counting ARCs or review copies? Nearly no one gives me books. (It is so sad. Watch me cry while I spend all my food money on books instead). My supervisor gave me a copy of Garland's Eye of the Beholder: Disease and Deformity etc, while my best friend gave me The Difference Engine just after Christmas. (I still haven't read it.)
The last book I gave as a gift:
That's probably either Range of Ghosts or The Etymologicon, depending on whether or not we count ARCs donated onwards.
The last book I read:
Leah Bobet, Above.
The nearest book:
I am surrounded. Equidistant: Ursula K LeGuin, The Wild Girls, David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284, Joanna Russ, To Write Like A Woman, PC Hodgell, The Godstalker Chronicles, Michelle West, The Hidden City, Leah Bobet, Above, Edelstein & Edelstein, Asclepius.
The books I wish someone would write for me:
A really solid readable social history of Ireland 1739-1905. The equivalent of Dan Cruickshank's Secret History of Georgian London for Dublin. A new anotated translation of Celsus On Medicine to be available in paperback.
Good secret or alternate history fantasy set in Ireland, Italy, Spain, the Near East, Central Asia, or Africa from the 1600s on. Please?
oursin and mrissa.The books I'm reading:
All of them? Really? Do I have to?
Okay, the list starts with John Travlos, A Pictorial Dictionary of Athens, Erika Simons, Festivals of Attica, Edelstein & Edelstein, Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies, an edited volume called Nothing to Do with Dionysos, and another one called Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East.
Stuff what I am not reading for research qua research: the Oxford World's Classics Myths from Mesopotamia, volume one of the Penguin Classics Tales of the 1001 Nights, a terrible "popular" biography of Frances Kemble, 19th century actress and writer, and the JACT Cambridge Greek Anthology.
Stuff what I am allegedly reading for pleasure: K.S. Augustin, War Games, Daniel O'Malley, The Rook (which I am about to give up on, for it is not improving), Phyllis Ann Karr, Frostflower and Thorn, Gemma Files, A Rope of Thorns and Joanna Russ, To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction.
Books I'm writing: My thesis. Some noodly things for my own satisfaction.
The book I love the most:
Just one? Bzzt! Wrong question!
Here's a list of authors: Elizabeth Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ursula K LeGuin, Amanda Downum, Tamora Pierce, Nicola Griffiths, Daniel Fox/Chaz Brenchley, Barbara Hambly, Michelle Sagara, Terry Pratchett, Rosemary Kirstein, P.C. Hodgell, Marie Brennan, Dorothy L Sayers, Samuel R Delany.
Here's a list of history books: James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love, Peter Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, Miri Rubin, The Hollow Crown, Dan Cruickshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Marcus Rediker, Slave Ship: A Human History, Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts.
I could go on.
The last book I received as a gift:
Not counting ARCs or review copies? Nearly no one gives me books. (It is so sad. Watch me cry while I spend all my food money on books instead). My supervisor gave me a copy of Garland's Eye of the Beholder: Disease and Deformity etc, while my best friend gave me The Difference Engine just after Christmas. (I still haven't read it.)
The last book I gave as a gift:
That's probably either Range of Ghosts or The Etymologicon, depending on whether or not we count ARCs donated onwards.
The last book I read:
Leah Bobet, Above.
The nearest book:
I am surrounded. Equidistant: Ursula K LeGuin, The Wild Girls, David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284, Joanna Russ, To Write Like A Woman, PC Hodgell, The Godstalker Chronicles, Michelle West, The Hidden City, Leah Bobet, Above, Edelstein & Edelstein, Asclepius.
The books I wish someone would write for me:
A really solid readable social history of Ireland 1739-1905. The equivalent of Dan Cruickshank's Secret History of Georgian London for Dublin. A new anotated translation of Celsus On Medicine to be available in paperback.
Good secret or alternate history fantasy set in Ireland, Italy, Spain, the Near East, Central Asia, or Africa from the 1600s on. Please?
