The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[eccentrici]

My Week in Review

The Good:
Library Volunteer Job! Okay, I would much rather have a paying library job, but until I can find one, I am building up my resume and getting my name out there. I start on Wednesday, and I am so stoked!

The Gift Poems by Hafiz, the great Sufi master. One of the best things I've read all year. More later. Every time I try to describe this book, I pick it up, start reading, and forget everything else around me.

A cool Wonder Woman postcard and a birthday card from moonlettuce.

Shopping! Went to the Gem & Jewelry show with my sister, and I found a huge stash of funky costume jewelry for only $20! Rings, bracelets, necklaces. I also bought a gorgeous fused glass dichroic necklace for my mom to give me for my birthday. On my way home, I hit the 80% off bookstore (even though I promised to cut down on my book buying) and discovered a Kerouac bio that I don't have (at least I don't think I have it), Christopher Bram's Hold Tight (Nazi Intrigue in a Homosexual Brothel according to the back cover), LOTRs books for David, and a book I will discuss in the next section.

The Bad:
Getting home from the 80% off bookstore and flipping open E.M. Forster's The Life to Come only to find out that it is actually Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case. Dude, I was wondering why E.M. was writing about breast implants. Talk about jarring! I'm going back tomorrow to return the book.

The Ugly:
Wicked Willow I:The Darkeningby Yvonne Navarro. I know, the Buffy books are more like fanfiction that someone was paid to write, but if this popped up on Live Journal or YahooGroups, I would have deleted it after the first chapter. I don't know where to begin with this one. As a writer, if you can't write Jossversian dialogue, don't! Ms. Navarro can't, and this fact is even more obvious because her dialogue is set alongside actually dialogue from the show. It's grating. Also, don't buy this book for its rumoured Oz content. Not worth it. If anyone wants me to elaborate, just ask and I will.

Comments

[gloss]

Congratulations on the volunteer job! That's so cool. Do you know what kinds of things they're going to have you do?

*hearts libraries just so much*

And I like Bram's books a lot; I hope you enjoy that one. Freaky about the Forster, though. He really wasn't a breast man. Like, at all.

[eccentrici.livejournal.com]

Right now, I'm filing and labeling holds, shelf reading, and helping patrons with the computers. If I can only finish my 16 hours of foreign language, I can get my MLIS and be a real librarian. Of course, then I'd have to decide between being an academic librarian, rare books specialists, or public librarian.

Part of me really wants to keep the Forster for it's comic value, but $5 is $5 and there are lots of books waiting for me to take them home.

[gloss]

Early birthday present for you - kindkit just wrote this in the Jazz, and it's so *perfect*, I have to show you:
What he'd like is to take these boxes back to their motel and go through them together. He could tease Oz about his boyhood nudism, ask about his father, about singing hymns in summer camp, about a whole childhood spent (apparently) frolicking naked with Devon. It was with Devon, Giles knows, that Oz first had sex, but what he's seeing in these pictures—the two of them something like brothers, something like childhood sweethearts—seems much more idyllic than he'd imagined.
I think it's shot to the top of my favorite Oz/Devon descriptions.

[eccentrici.livejournal.com]

That's just so beautiful, it makes me want to cry. I've loved the whole coming home thread. {{Hugs you and kindkit}} Now, I'm off to e-mail her with praise.

[eccentrici.livejournal.com]

Make that "its comic value". I should have taken my nap today.

[eccentrici.livejournal.com]

He's not really in the book, at least not the first two books. Since I can't cut tag replies SPOILERS AHOY!

The whole premise of the book is what would have happened if Willow had stayed in Evil Willow mode. It starts with the aftermath of Warren's death, but forgoes her ending the world and the "yellow Crayon speech" in favor of her forming a coven and working toward resurrecting Tara. She takes over a warehouse space and uses a summoning spell to call forth two pets: Spike and Oz. Oz doesn't really get anything to do because she immediately turns him into a wolf. Like I said, it's like bad fanfic run amok. Not worth the $5.99 I paid for it.

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

That's funny about EM Forster and the breast implants. I don't think I read that one either. I have to check out all your other recs. I'm a librarian at Furr High School, btw.

[eccentrici.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about the benefits of school librarianship, especially the long summer break. As soon as I finish my 16 hours of foreign language, I'm off to get my MLIS. I just can't decide on a course of study.