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1. Hilariously, I just realized: I’m flying to Atlanta next Monday, then home Tuesday, then to Utah Wednesday—via the exact same flight to Atlanta as I take Monday.
2. The Torrent of Our Own graphics challenge proceeds: go here to see a vid that’s all about what vidding means to the vidder (then stay and make icons!)
3. You have been the victims of a terrible swindle: Great reading; not so great living.
Maureen Johnson, Devilish: Jane Jarvis has a smart mouth, which doesn’t serve her well at Saint Theresa’s Prep, and a best friend who’s equally outcast. But when a new student comes to school, Jane watches with horror as Allison gets in way too deep: deal with a demon deep. Now it’s up to Jane, and some unlikely allies, to save the day. The story was fun; the characters felt realistically teenaged, especially Jane’s interaction with her ex Elton. And I loved that Jane was mad about the fact that the girl’s school was so under-resourced compared to the boys’. Fun YA; would read more by the same author.
Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, ed. Linda Williams: Very high theory; if you’re interested in what’s the current thinking complicating Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, this might be of interest, but it is long on jargon and short on examples, which I guess is standard if you’re in the kind of field that requires you to talk about Laplanche and Pontalis a lot. Sadly, I didn’t find it very useful.
Michael Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan, Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human: Free LibraryThing early reviewer book. So, I read a lot of these books popularizing behavioral psychology. If you haven’t read any, this might be an interesting introduction, if you like the angle (various different kinds of stupid decisions, beyond the economic) and if you don’t mind a certain purple tinge, or lushness if you prefer, to the prose. If you’ve read one, then you’ll probably see some stuff you’ve already seen and some new takes. If you’ve read two, the ratio of new to old will continue to deteriorate, and if you’ve read three, this is almost certainly not the book for you.
2. The Torrent of Our Own graphics challenge proceeds: go here to see a vid that’s all about what vidding means to the vidder (then stay and make icons!)
3. You have been the victims of a terrible swindle: Great reading; not so great living.
Maureen Johnson, Devilish: Jane Jarvis has a smart mouth, which doesn’t serve her well at Saint Theresa’s Prep, and a best friend who’s equally outcast. But when a new student comes to school, Jane watches with horror as Allison gets in way too deep: deal with a demon deep. Now it’s up to Jane, and some unlikely allies, to save the day. The story was fun; the characters felt realistically teenaged, especially Jane’s interaction with her ex Elton. And I loved that Jane was mad about the fact that the girl’s school was so under-resourced compared to the boys’. Fun YA; would read more by the same author.
Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, ed. Linda Williams: Very high theory; if you’re interested in what’s the current thinking complicating Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, this might be of interest, but it is long on jargon and short on examples, which I guess is standard if you’re in the kind of field that requires you to talk about Laplanche and Pontalis a lot. Sadly, I didn’t find it very useful.
Michael Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan, Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human: Free LibraryThing early reviewer book. So, I read a lot of these books popularizing behavioral psychology. If you haven’t read any, this might be an interesting introduction, if you like the angle (various different kinds of stupid decisions, beyond the economic) and if you don’t mind a certain purple tinge, or lushness if you prefer, to the prose. If you’ve read one, then you’ll probably see some stuff you’ve already seen and some new takes. If you’ve read two, the ratio of new to old will continue to deteriorate, and if you’ve read three, this is almost certainly not the book for you.
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