Currently reading
Madame Bovary
Siddhartha
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Collected Essays)
The Children Star
Manstealing for Fat Girls
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
Radiant Days
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Footnotes in Gaza
Generation Dead (Generation Dead Novels)
I guess zombies are the new vampires. There's a strange phenomenon at UMass involving zombies, and there's a zombie Jane Austen book apparently, and so on. I've never been a horror fan and have never actually been interested in zombies but this book was strangely compelling and had a few new ideas. It's doing that Sookie Stackhouse style Civil Rights for Monsters extended metaphor (for what, I'm not exactly sure in either case... maybe LGBT movements, maybe immigrants, maybe people with disabilities). I'm both tired of all these sloppy attempts at monsters as extended metaphors and also successfully hailed by the attempts. I dunno. It's obviously going to be a series, and I imagine I'll read the next one. I don't know Daniel Waters but he seems like a smart guy taking a payday with an almost-real idea. Is it me or is the trace of capitalism particularly obvious in the YA section of any given bookstore? So many series, so many Harry Potter or Twilight ripoffs (aka ripoffs of ripoffs)... How many stories really NEED to be a series of books? And yet also there's so much good stuff coming out under the sign of YA...
