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Sep. 17th, 2007 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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jkason and I are known as the Evil Twins. Mostly by my husband. Not in that "one is good and the other is the exact opposite and has a goatee" way, but in that we are twins** and we are evil. Mostly to my husband. I dunno, we make the same jokes, have the same expressions, are both slightly obsessive ... whatever.
Anyway, this trend doesn't tend to extend to books. We loan each other stuff all the time that doesn't quite work for the other.
But when it does ... wham!***
Which is the long way of saying that I read Territory by Emma Bull and really, really liked it. (Jason loaned me ... Finder, I believe, was the first one of hers I read? ... so that's how that ties in.) I think she may have accomplished something I'd have thought impossible: this is a book that my *entire* family might like. I come from a long line of people who love westerns and fantasy, but it doesn't always overlap. Okay, it doesn't overlap in me or in my father. My mother and grandmother, all over both genres. Dad likes the westerns, I like the fantasies.
Dad's reading it now, so we shall see what he thinks.
I also *just* finished reading The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe, and ... well, really, any book of Gene Wolf's where I come out feeling like I got 75% of it, *especially* right now, is a win for me. :)
So my unrerad stack of shame is slightly smaller--of course, I bought a new book, so it's not as small as it should be, but hey, two down and ten or so to go isn't bad. Now I have to decide on which one to read next.
**not in a Mary-Kate and Ashley Oleson way, just mentally.
*** I'm hoping that when he has a little more time to read, I can wham Jason with the Company novels.
jkason and I are known as the Evil Twins. Mostly by my husband. Not in that "one is good and the other is the exact opposite and has a goatee" way, but in that we are twins** and we are evil. Mostly to my husband. I dunno, we make the same jokes, have the same expressions, are both slightly obsessive ... whatever. Anyway, this trend doesn't tend to extend to books. We loan each other stuff all the time that doesn't quite work for the other.
But when it does ... wham!***
Which is the long way of saying that I read Territory by Emma Bull and really, really liked it. (Jason loaned me ... Finder, I believe, was the first one of hers I read? ... so that's how that ties in.) I think she may have accomplished something I'd have thought impossible: this is a book that my *entire* family might like. I come from a long line of people who love westerns and fantasy, but it doesn't always overlap. Okay, it doesn't overlap in me or in my father. My mother and grandmother, all over both genres. Dad likes the westerns, I like the fantasies.
Dad's reading it now, so we shall see what he thinks.
I also *just* finished reading The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe, and ... well, really, any book of Gene Wolf's where I come out feeling like I got 75% of it, *especially* right now, is a win for me. :)
So my unrerad stack of shame is slightly smaller--of course, I bought a new book, so it's not as small as it should be, but hey, two down and ten or so to go isn't bad. Now I have to decide on which one to read next.
**not in a Mary-Kate and Ashley Oleson way, just mentally.
*** I'm hoping that when he has a little more time to read, I can wham Jason with the Company novels.
