Books, Books, Books!

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
-- Emma Goldman

Friday, June 13, 1997

"Friday the thirteenth come on a Friday!" Actually, it's surprising how little there is on the web about Pogo. I mentioned the porcupine and Miz' Hepzibah to someone a few weeks ago, and he wasn't familiar with Walt Kelley and the swamp at all!

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I have a craving, an urge, to get a subnotebook computer. The sole use for this would be to write this journal! I was inspired by Althea's descriptions (last fall?) of riding the subway and typing her journal entries with her thumbs on a subnotebook. This would also involve riding the bus to work, which I don't mind, but does take a long time, even on an express bus. It turns a half-hour drive to an hour plus ride.

But I could get a subnotebook, used, for not too much. There are ads in the Micronews all the time, since microsofties often get stuff, then upgrade right away. I'll be thinking about this...

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Since I worked until almost five, and the traffic web site showed black, the worst, on both bridges, I decided to go to a movie, Con Air. I really liked it! The action wasn't too over the top until the ending, and so many of my favorite actors really got great parts. Nicholas Cage, Steve Buscemi, John Malkovich, Yay!

Then I went to Barnes and Noble, and got the book for my bookclub meeting next week, The Romance Reader, by Pearl Abraham. "An assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear," says the New York Times Book Review. I also bought a bunch of romances of the regular sort. This is a genre that I have always read, but I am picky and hard to please because I started at the age of ten with one of the best writers in it, Georgette Heyer. How disappointed I was a few years later, after I had read all of her books. The local drugstore didn't have any other authors like her at that time. They still don't! But there are authors that have some of her humor and some of her feeling, without stealing her exact language and situations. I am on an email list (rra-l) for romance readers which has turned me on to many good authors writing today, like Mary Balogh and Mary Jo Putney. I also bought a copy of Boardwatch magazine, which was aimed at BBS (Bulletin Board System) operators, who have now turned into ISPs (Internet Sevice Providers). The editor, Jack Rickard, is very opinionated and knowledgeable. Among internet magazines, it's the one that is the most packed with content, not fluff!

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