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bearshorty) wrote2010-01-29 11:00 pm
bearshorty) wrote2010-01-29 11:00 pm
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14 Shevat/29 January, 2010
Now that I’ve started a new book with its unique voice and style, I find that I miss being in the world of “American Gods.” Just the style of prose and the feeling that it evoked. My favorite parts of the book were the asides of people coming to America in different time periods and bringing their gods with them. Maybe because I came to America too and could relate to making this country my own (which is something Gaiman wanted to do as well), I can understand making a new world from something. But I do miss being in that literary world and I do miss spending time with Shadow. And now I really want to read more of Norse mythology, especially about Baldur. I ordered a copy of a promising Norse mythology book that I found on Amazon from New York Public Library – I love the access to many books that can be delivered from other million braches of the library to my own.
Why do schoolboards listen to parents who want to censor books for ridiculous reasons or censor books in general? Here is one school district banning a new revised version of “Diary of Anne Frank” that has some passages her father originally omitted. She was a fifteen year old girl writing of things fifteen years olds think about. Do the parents think their thirteen to fifteen year olds are magically innocent? The school district will use the earlier edition and leave a new edition in the library, at least.
I really like the response to the article that actually quotes some things the parent did not want their child reading, because any reference to female sexual organs is apparently too disturbing for junior high school level adolescent students. And the passage itself is not offensive at all. I also appreciate a readers comment that rightly point out that violence and persecution of the Holocaust should be more disturbing then the description of body parts.
Dollhouse S2E13 The last episode. It was awesome. Viewing “Epitaph One” was a bit mandatory so I’m glad I got the DVD of it. I do like Zone and Mag from it too, but had amusing lives. And I did appreciate a kind of a happy ending. Priya and Tony got to be a happy family with their son, which is not something Joss does often, and Echo downloaded Paul into her head. Right after Paul died I did remember that a copy of him was in Alpha. It was interesting to see a reformed Alpha and sad that we did not get seasons in between to see that evolution. Topher and Adele rocked. Overall, a good conclusion and I will miss this show and the questions it actually dared to raise. I will put Season Two on my Amazon wishlist and hope I will get it for my birthday like last year with Season One.
Bear came to pick me up tonight. I’m spending the weekend at his house, but I did want to leave only after “Dollhouse” aired.
Why do schoolboards listen to parents who want to censor books for ridiculous reasons or censor books in general? Here is one school district banning a new revised version of “Diary of Anne Frank” that has some passages her father originally omitted. She was a fifteen year old girl writing of things fifteen years olds think about. Do the parents think their thirteen to fifteen year olds are magically innocent? The school district will use the earlier edition and leave a new edition in the library, at least.
I really like the response to the article that actually quotes some things the parent did not want their child reading, because any reference to female sexual organs is apparently too disturbing for junior high school level adolescent students. And the passage itself is not offensive at all. I also appreciate a readers comment that rightly point out that violence and persecution of the Holocaust should be more disturbing then the description of body parts.
Dollhouse S2E13 The last episode. It was awesome. Viewing “Epitaph One” was a bit mandatory so I’m glad I got the DVD of it. I do like Zone and Mag from it too, but had amusing lives. And I did appreciate a kind of a happy ending. Priya and Tony got to be a happy family with their son, which is not something Joss does often, and Echo downloaded Paul into her head. Right after Paul died I did remember that a copy of him was in Alpha. It was interesting to see a reformed Alpha and sad that we did not get seasons in between to see that evolution. Topher and Adele rocked. Overall, a good conclusion and I will miss this show and the questions it actually dared to raise. I will put Season Two on my Amazon wishlist and hope I will get it for my birthday like last year with Season One.
Bear came to pick me up tonight. I’m spending the weekend at his house, but I did want to leave only after “Dollhouse” aired.