I’ve not read a lot of fiction by Joanna Russ, The Female Man and a couple of short stories, and while I liked them all well enough I didn’t feel a rush of love for a writer held up as a premier feminist science fiction author. There was something too technical and cold to make me love […]
Author Archives: Emma
I am recovered from my big race last weekend and was casting around for something new to try. One of my favorite local bike shops was offering a free cyclocross clinic for beginners. Don’t know what cyclocross is? Here’s a taste: Now, those are championship racers but you get the idea. The shop set up […]
The leaves on Melody Maple have all turned golden and after a beautiful week of sun, we had a cold, windy, rainy Friday that blew all the leaves off the tree. Autumn leaves on trees are definitely gorgeous, but if you ask me, the show isn’t quite over even after they have fallen off. When […]
I finished reading Hesiod’s long poem The Works and Days. After the long retelling of the ages of the earth from the Golden Age to the present, after retelling about how Prometheus stole fire and how Pandora was created and evil let loose into the world, the poem turns out to be about how one should […]
I chose to read Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov for the Classic Circuit without having any idea what the book was about. I had some vague recollection that I had read someone’s blog post about it once and it sounded good but beyond that I could not go. I could even get the book for free online and […]
It was a dark and stormy night…really it is. It’s thundering out right now and pouring rain–again. At least it waited until I got home from work on my bicycle. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson has no stormy nights in it. There is dark though. And a mysterious icy cold spot in front of […]
My Bookman and I went for a lovely bike ride today. During our ride he asked what I planned to blog about later. I replied that I hadn’t thought of anything yet and asked if he had any requests or suggestions. He suggested a list of books I had not read that it seemed everyone […]
Currently my lunchtime reading at work is Trainwreck: the women we love to hate, mock, fear…and why by Sady Doyle. It is a most excellent book of nonfiction about why we gleefully love to rip women celebrities apart and make fun of them for their mistakes, addictions, emotional breakdowns, relationship break-ups, cellulite and generally being human. There […]