Building Blocks and Knitting Needles: Little, Big Again
posted by mjd 
in HM, Reading, Writings | 6 Comments »
6 Comments »
Categories
Archives
Read My Writing
- The Future Fire Issue 2009.18 –– “Maryann Saves the World”
- The Homeless Moon July 2009 — “The Cannon and the Prophetess”
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies August 2009 — “Between Two Treasons”
- Abyss & Apex August 2009 — “Starlings”
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies Feb. 2009 — “Of Thinking Being and Beast”
- More
What I'm Reading
The Stories of Eva Luna
Isabel Allende
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
Greer Gilman- GoodReads
Other Blogs Where I Ramble
- Homeless Moon A hive mind/conspiracy of five genre writers.
- Literary Beer My blog series on homebrewing at Small Beer Press.
Seconded. It’s a book that rends one.
Have you read The Translator?
And, good Lord, why would you want to make yourself immune to it?? It’s one of the best things in life.
You’re right—I wouldn’t want to make myself immune. Yeah. I am relieved, actually, to find that a story can still do this to me. I just thought I was beyond it.
I haven’t found much fiction, lately, that can do that to me, but that’s certainly one.
No I have not. I will probably read a lot more Crowley now—but I haven’t read much before now except what Small Beer published.
I kind of stalled in the middle of the Aegypt cycle. I think it is as amazing iin most ways as Little, Big, but it’s not quite as personal. The Translator is very different in form, but is my second favorite of his books because it completely changed my relationship to poetry.
I also like Moonwise by Greer Ilene Gilman. It’s completely different but makes me feel kind of flayed, but, um, in a good way. I note that Small Beer is publishing the “sequel” to that book soon. I keep meaning to sign up for it in advance, as my housemate already has.