Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Terry Pratchett is at Cody's in Berkeley tonight. Other appearances this month (after October use this link, probably) include Berkeley Breathed and Molly Ivins. I've finished reading the first three of Alexander McCall Smith's No. …
Reading Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground, which has so many quotable lines. The fragment that really affected me when I read the first few pages, years ago: "...in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined …
Currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, an alternate-history time-travel literary detective story. Reminds me of Connie Willis in that you see academics doing time travel in modern England, only it's not as annoying. …
Just a couple more months till Gordon Korman's new book Jake, Reinvented comes out. The first chapter certainly echoes Fitzgerald in the names -- Rick/Nick, Todd Buckley/Tom Buchanan, Jake Garrett/Jay Gatsby, Didi Ray/Daisy Fay, Jennifer/Jordan, …
I'm reading the Mahabharata in prose form, as edited by C. Rajagopalachari, "popularly known as 'Rajaji' or 'C.R.'" Fantastic stuff. I see the connections among little narratives and anecdotes that I read in Amar Chitra …
First there was The Holy Tango of Poetry, and now we have the much more profane version which includes Jewel.
Cody's Books weblog. I bet that the outside-world liaison is the only one with write access to the blog, and I'll have to get on the webmaster's case to make permalinks, but for now, I'm …
"In fact, Kia is trans-just about every system of human categorisation, and what she isn't trans- she is post-." -- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon My mind dwells on my post-ness because only last night did I …
It's okay. I didn't enjoy it as much as I did Goblet of Fire. Hey Leonard, no need to hurry. Finish Paradise Lost and that Grisham, Painted Christmas or whatever, first. Update: I feel foolish …
This weekend: my sister and I are moving and I'm reading the new Rowling. And I miss Leonard.