for a paper due friday:
the changing room: sex, drag, and theatre, by laurence senelick
flaming classics: queering the film canon, by alexander doty
beautiful boys/outlaw bodies: devising kabuki female-likeness, by katherine mezur
for pleasure [and a cross-country roadtrip]:
good omens, by neil gaiman [for the umpteenth time]
up next: the portable dorothy parker
KCB, I must get some of those books you're readin'. The cassowary one especially. Thanks for playing along.
I've been reading Diarmaid MacCullough's The Reformation: A History. It's fabulous and wonderful and awesome and amazing... Sure, it's 700 pages long, but it is the most succint and well-written overview of the Reformation I've ever read.
Oh and, Charlaine Harris's new Southern Vampire novel, All Together Dead (just out). Because the telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and her weretiger boyfriend are a great antidote to too much Reformation.
I just finished "The Grail Bird," which is about the discovery that the ivory-billed woodpecker is (probably) not extinct after all. Very cool, and might make good bedtime reading for Rocketboy. The URLs for various important pieces of evidence are included, which is totally cool. I am also working my way through "The Singing Life of Birds," which I am reading to my 7-year-old son as part of his bedtime storytime. I do a lot of editing as I go, because he has a limited tolerance for why sonograms are a good research tool for birdsong, but he is interested in looking at the sonograms and comparing the visual data with the CD tracks, and he likes the bits where the researcher goes out into the field and describes what kinds of things he's paying attention to and why.
More on my son's reading level, I have found a series called "Invisible, Inc." where one of the protagonists is turned invisible after falling into an underground pool while spelunking with his parents. His best friend and another one of his classmates create a detective club to help other kids, relying on their special attributes to solve the mystery.
I am also reading the Enchanted Forest series by Patricia Wrede to both my son and my daughter. So far the 3rd book in the series is our favorite, as one of the subsidiary characters is a rabbit named Killer who keeps stumbling into spells that change his appearance, until he is a 6-foot-high, floating, blue, insubstantial donkey with large wings near the end of the book. I highly recommend these feminist stories to you and yours.
This is funny, cause I just did a post on this! But right this second I'm reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. It's very odd and I might not finish it.
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