I Want You To Be Happy Day/Hina Matsuri/National Anthem Day/Pulaski Day/Read Across America Day
2008-03-03 @ 10:45 p.m.

Finished reading Robota by Orson Scott Card and Doug Chiang over the weekend. It's a pretty cool story, set on a fictional fourth planet, Orpheus, that subsequently crashed into Earth, thereby forming the moon. The story is more like a sneak peek into the world of Robota than a fully fleshed out alternate reality, but it does have gorgeous illustrations. (Chiang did work on the first two episodes of the Stars Wars prequel trilogy.) Then today, I finished Sonia Levitin's The Goodness Gene. Basically, a megalomaniac clones a pair of Hitlers, raising them on different anti-agathic drugs in a bid to fashion a young body into which to transplant his own brain. This all takes place in the context of a post-apocalyptic society, which has been fashioned into a kissing cousin of Orwell's 1984. Quite disturbing stuff, considering this book's actually targeted at youths. Well, in short everything turns out fine in the end and the balance is restored, in the book's parlance. The protagonist dies though, which is what makes this an atypical story. Am now reading T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962, and not really understanding it. I would like to eventually, and thoroughly too.

This week:

Cheerleading Week

Procrastination Week