My review of Princes Amongst Men is up at Moorish Girl. I'm still thinking about this book and all the history that I had no clue about. This kind of thing always makes me wonder what else I might be missing, which is the ultimate slippery slope for a reader.
Today's mail brought some grand titles: Big Coal, Secrets of the Savannah and Deogratias which looks like an amazing graphic novel about Rwanda. I love this kind of a book day, when all the books that arrive are books that I've been waiting for and eager to see and touch and think about - when all the books matter.
I keep coming back to that "matter" thing, don't I?
I'm hoping to interview the author of Big Coal and also maybe combine it with another book on the same subject. I'm still a little freaked out by the article I read on strip mining in Orion recently. This is one of those stories that the world should know about, but we don't - we don't know a thing.
More Sex and the City tonight, more dragons, more reading of Sir Neville Henderson (who is certainly confused about the whole WWII thing). I'm going to do an article on YA anthologies for Eclectica this summer so there's a boatload of short story reading in my future and that makes me happy. Good stories matter, good strong important stories matter.
April 21
2006
08:56 AM
"Princes Amongst Men" sounds really interesting. I spent a week in Budapest a year or so ago and I was so dissapointed that I couldn't find any local performances while I was there; I had to settle for buying cds.