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[eredien]

I have, after some constultation with friends, decided to make one of my college-related journal entries in the past few days private, and let the matter speak for itself when it happens.

Thank you.

Now, I'm going off to wrap D&D Prizes and play the game of Search for the Alums All Over Campus.

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[raki.livejournal.com]

This has nothing to do with anything much, really, except the things it has to do with... okay, that was garbled, on with the content:

I was looking at my bookshelf earlier today and thought you might enjoy the Neveryon series by Samuel R. Delany. If you haven't heard of it or him, he's an excellent SF writer (and a professor of Comparative Literature) and the series is a fantasy set in a world much like our Earth, but eschews many of the conventions of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and is written in both an accessible and erudite style. It is also based on archaeological evidence.
If you have, I will have to read it over so we can talk about it.

It also occurred to me that you'd find it interesting/useful/related to/for your modern cities (?) course.

That is all.

[eredien]

I've read only one Delaney book so far, Nova, and found it excellent. It brought up issues I'm still trying to deal with.

He spoke here at our college last year, and did a reading; he's doing more autobiographical-ish and non-fiction stuff now, but is an excellent writer and I got the impression he was incredibly erudite.

I ought to read those; perhaps this summer I shall start.
Thanks, Raki. Book recommendations are always welcome. I find myself having less and less time to read--it was sometime during 10th grade when I realized I would never have time to read everything I'd ever want to--but when I read, boy, I just go after those things like a pack of wolves after a juicy steak.

[raki.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet read Nova, but I have heard it's excellent.

He spoke at your college. {greener than green} I am jealous!

I know what you mean about having less and less time to read. I have not read for pleasure for weeks, maybe months, at least nothing more than an old-favourite short story now and then.

And then I read voraciously in breaks. {grin}