Book Intake Post

[hrj]

While it seems like the entire rest of my online social world is squeeing about getting their hands on Kameron Hurley's just-released Mirror Empire, I will content myself with squeeing over the delivery to my doorstep of Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century (ed. John C. Beynon and Caroline Gonda; Ashgate, 2010). This will be added to the stack of "newly acquired books to be included in the Lesbian Historic Motif Project" sitting beside my recliner. This is apart from all the books waiting on the shelves and all the journal offprints in the file boxes. Having dived into the LHMP in earnest, I now seem to be acquiring new material faster than I'm processing what I already have. This is not entirely a bad thing.

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[vnend.livejournal.com]

Having dived into the LHMP in earnest, I now seem to be acquiring new material faster than I'm processing what I already have. This is not entirely a bad thing.

Job (OK, project) security is nice.

I'm not commenting much, but I am enjoying reading your postings. And, yes, a 'good parts' version of _The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu_ would be fun; there were several times when your comments on the 'travelogue' parts reminded me of William Goldman commenting on S. Morgenstern's excesses in The Princess Bride.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comment. Intellectually, I know that lots of people are reading this series. (And it isn't necessarily a series that promotes casual discussion.) But it's good to get direct feedback on occasion.

I, too, was reminded a bit of the "good parts version" comments from The Princess Bride. And that's probably one of the angles I'll take in my adaptation. (I'm thinking of periodic comments along the lines of, "I have a great many notes on the sights we saw while traveling from X to Y, but Arabella has persuaded me to omit them from this journal.")