Return of Memoryfest: Day 8/31

[bironic]

(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

Comments

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

*points to newest additions of werewolf, fanfic/fandom and Pathology texts*

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.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I... want your job. No, really. I should email you about it one of these days.

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 catilinarian. It's called The Complete Book of Werewolves and it's by Leonard R.N. Ashley. So far so mediocre -- would be better if he'd write complete passages instead of breaking his text up into paragraph-long subsections -- but will reserve judgment until the end.

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.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the titles! I'll have to check them out at Amazon.com (although, as you say, I have no idea when I'd get a chance to actually read them).

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.