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Return of Memoryfest: Day 8/31
(Thought I'd jazz it up with some of these icons. Retroactively.)
8. Middle School
In the car on vacation in Toronto, my mother glanced at the cover of a Deep Space Nine paperback I was reading, saw the drawing of Dr. Bashir and said, "He has a bulbous nose." Anytime the word "bulbous" comes up, that's what I think of.
WTF
8. Middle School
In the car on vacation in Toronto, my mother glanced at the cover of a Deep Space Nine paperback I was reading, saw the drawing of Dr. Bashir and said, "He has a bulbous nose." Anytime the word "bulbous" comes up, that's what I think of.
WTF
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~SNL~
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(And I just caught up, so if you have a multitude of replies, that's just my memories *S*)
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It was my first table-top roleplaying that set that off. I was 15 when I started that.
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I think I remember you telling this story last year, and it led into a group conversation about how to deal with people who aren't used to exercising their imaginations. Looks like the moral this time is that parents can't stop their kids from admiring (or yearning for) a fictional world or from roleplaying, no matter how hard they try. :)
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But that's a great moral, so I don't mind :-)
(Oh, that's a great icon, btw!)
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A friend gave me a guidebook for Buenos Aires this Christmas and then chided me for reading it in the bar - what did she think I would do with dozens of new pages of text!?
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And add me to the textbooks-for-pleasure club. *points to newest additions of werewolf, fanfic/fandom and Pathology texts*
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There are textbooks about werewolves and about fanfic? They both sound interesting. Titles, please? (Along similar lines, have you read Paul Barber's Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality? It's a fascinating book.) I'll pass on the pathology book, though: it sounds too much like a book I'd edit for work. (Who knows? I might even have edited it; I've worked on a lot of medical textbooks.)
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There are textbooks about werewolves and about fanfic?
You betcha! I've got a shelf full of fanfic and fandom studies books. Most of them are sociological studies, some interdisciplinary collections of essays, and a few take a literary/textual perspective (my favorite). The two that I am most looking forward to reading are Sheenagh Pugh's The Democratic Genre: Fan fiction in a literary context and Hellekson & Busse's edited collection, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (both pub. 2006).
There don't seem to be nearly as many books on werewolves as on vampires (which is okay with me *g*). The one I have here was a present from
Haven't read the book you mention. Don't know when I'll have time to check it out! So much to read, so very little time.
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I... want your job. No, really. I should email you about it one of these days.
Feel free! (My email address is on my profile page). I'd be happy to hear from you.
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I don't know how old I was when I started reading, but some of my earliest memories are of books. And I haven't stopped either, though lately I've (sadly) been reading more fanfic and less printed material. One of my unofficial New Year's resolutions is to right the balance. (Started this weekend and everything -- Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table and part of a text on werewolves in pop culture.)
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My first job at the theatre company was as an archivist, which I took as a mandate to read every piece of paper in every file I came across (instant institutional memory). That was an awesome four months.
I've gradually been reading more and more online, whether it's personal or work-related. And while it doesn't replace the feel of a book in the hand, it's easier to clean up after a click-through rampage on Wikipedia (though perhaps not as accurately informative) than it was to reshelve half my mother's reference bookcase after one of my childhood fact-finding missions.
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I pretty much always take a book with me when I have to go anywhere that might involve waiting (doctors' offices, mechanics, etc.). At home, I always read either a book or the paper while eating. If I'm visiting other people, I'll read whatever's there on the table—including cereal boxes and labels.
lately I've (sadly) been reading more fanfic and less printed material. One of my unofficial New Year's resolutions is to right the balance.
Yeah, me too. Except the fanfic is so good that I don't really want to cut back. What we really need is to expand the number of available (i.e., nonworking) hours in the day. Then we can read both!