Reading Wednesday (it's Wednesday, right?)

[frandroid]

I have finished Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A family tragicomic. It was a good coming-out autobiography focused on her family, with lots of literary meta. Most of that meta kind of went over my head as I have not read Ulysses, even though Bechdel kind of spells it out. But one kind of gets the point.

I've started reading Dune again! It's been 22 years, I think! After I started, I realized I just need to read half of it because the upcoming film is part 1 of 2, but obviously I'll finish the whole book in time. Someone just asked to borrow my copy so that should also motivate my regular book-reading slowness.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I loved Fun Home. I guess I should read Dune one of these days.

[frandroid]

I can't believe you haven't read Dune, with the company you keep!! :)

[sabotabby]

It's legitimately embarrassing. I just never got around to it and now it feels too late (of course it isn't).

[ioplokon]

oh dune. so much that's so captivating and interesting and then also just............. the gender dystopia of that universe..............(this is a term/concept i'm trying to work through to describe like, the ferengi misogyny in star trek and various things in the dune books, some of which i guess are maybe spoilers... but which is also related to the deep depression i feel whenever i remember that incels exist)

[frandroid]

It's a good way to put it.