Having made an off-hand comment yesterday about The Legend of Billie Jean as a feminist movie, I now find myself slightly obsessed with doing this analysis. It’s true that I haven’t seen the movie in probably at least ten years, but (to my surprise) I seem to remember it pretty well, and I spent most [...]
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Posted in feminism | 3 Comments »>I’ve been immersed in the Vorkosigan books–really, for a few weeks now, my leisure reading has been all Miles Miles Miles. I’m near the end and expect to have something more to say about them soon, but these books caused me to have a very awkward moment at work today. Specifically this: at lunch, I [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 3 Comments »>Huh. I had a post planned out, and was going to write more about books I’ve been reading, but a book got in the way. I downloaded that free CD of all the Vorkosigan books that Baen has on offer. Ever since, basically every minute not spent teaching or grading has been spent reading Shards [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 1 Comment »>On a much lighter note: our TiVo picked up ET recently, and I watched it last night. You know, I’m trying to remember the last time I saw ET. It may have been in Spanish class (and thus in Spanish) in tenth grade. ET is one of those movies that I always felt like I’d [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 2 Comments »>I have, officially, too many books-in-progress. (Reading, not writing.) I usually have two or three going at the same time–different ones for different moods, or different locations–but this has just gotten out of hand. The current list of books I’m partway through reading, plus the reason why I haven’t finished them yet: Africa: A Biography [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 7 Comments »>I’ve decided to join the Africa Reading Challenge, which I first learned about from Matt Cheney. It’s pretty straightforward: read six books this year that are either about Africa or by African authors. Ever since I first put together the unit on African science for my survey course on science in the ancient world, I’ve [...]
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