A few weeks ago this post by zuzu made me bump To Kill A Mockingbird up to the top of my “classics I gotta read one day” list. I started reading it a few hours ago and have now finished… Read More ›
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The Eunuch spurns Mystique
It’s no secret that Germaine Greer is is not now, and never has been, especially enamoured of Betty Friedan’s seminal work, The Feminine Mystique. Her own seminal work, The Female Eunuch, was conceived as a direct counterpoint to Friedan’s book…. Read More ›
James Frey’s fictional non-fiction – more than just a personal flaw
It is very frightening that many, perhaps millions of people’s understanding of addiction has been grossly perverted by a fraudulent book that started its life as an overt work of fiction. So says my old mate Kev, over at Sufficient… Read More ›
You might well think that…
FX: beat – all together now: …but I couldn’t possibly comment! Yes! My family got me the complete Francis Urqhart trilogy on DVD for Xmas, also the Firth-Ehle Pride and Prejudice mini-series, and the 1st season of Black Books. Hugs… Read More ›
Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?
In a fascinating thread over at Pandagon riffing off a post by Twisty, the comments thread drifted away from Lucy to other fictinal characters, and of course we eventually ended up in SF (as all righteous geeks must regularly do),… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 