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I fell off writing these up, so a listing with some comments
LI: Pugin's House - details not to hand, but one of three books I picked up on a visit to a Landmark Trust property. I would have liked a few more before and after pictures to see how much remodelling was done.
LII: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - classic feminist critical utopia; a reread.
LIII: Monique Wittig, The Lesbian Body - bizarre, descriptive, account of bodies which recalls the opening of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and is, well, maybe pointless. I suspect I'm not the target audience.
LIV-LVI: Robert Adams, The Coming of the Horseclans, Revenge of the Horseclans,
Swords of the Horseclans
Or, perhaps, by Rhobaht Adamz. When I read these as a teen, I was struck by the preponderance of villains as paedophiles - or that there was an obsession with men obsessed with boys. Rereading, I see that some of the good guys share these proclivities, and for that matter the age of consent for girls is rather low. An author's foreword in each insists on there being no political subtext - so the pretty despicable depiction of a feminist is okay then. There are about three more to read from the 1970s.
LVII: Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival - I fell off reading these as life intervened. Maybe the joke overstayed its welcome, but the scaffolding feels too visible.
I feel I've missed stuff - and I've a lot of books a third read.
LI: Pugin's House - details not to hand, but one of three books I picked up on a visit to a Landmark Trust property. I would have liked a few more before and after pictures to see how much remodelling was done.
LII: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - classic feminist critical utopia; a reread.
LIII: Monique Wittig, The Lesbian Body - bizarre, descriptive, account of bodies which recalls the opening of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and is, well, maybe pointless. I suspect I'm not the target audience.
LIV-LVI: Robert Adams, The Coming of the Horseclans, Revenge of the Horseclans,
Swords of the Horseclans
Or, perhaps, by Rhobaht Adamz. When I read these as a teen, I was struck by the preponderance of villains as paedophiles - or that there was an obsession with men obsessed with boys. Rereading, I see that some of the good guys share these proclivities, and for that matter the age of consent for girls is rather low. An author's foreword in each insists on there being no political subtext - so the pretty despicable depiction of a feminist is okay then. There are about three more to read from the 1970s.
LVII: Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival - I fell off reading these as life intervened. Maybe the joke overstayed its welcome, but the scaffolding feels too visible.
I feel I've missed stuff - and I've a lot of books a third read.
