Hello Reader, who is also a reader, and welcome to return to the week – our regular Sunday conversation with the selection of great people in the book! To be honest, I began to regret it for that. The word “choice” evokes bureaucracy or crap of small versions of chocolate. Now I am imagining “he travels to Europe because he hears better chocolate but can only find old curly hairs”. That will be very bad.
This week, it was the last call, Tacoma, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and downloaded more Nina Freeman! Congratulations Nina! If we have a nose in your bookshelf?
What are you reading?
Well, usually I will read something a little less … in fact, but I’m going to have children! Therefore, Mayo Clinic’s guidance on healthy pregnancy is what I have read. It is great to read and learn about all the strange things happening in my body in the past nine months!
What did you read for the last time?
The last book I read was Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. This is the first book in one of her films, Dragonriders of Pern. I grabbed it at an ancient center from a box of cardboard filled with old science fiction papers. I really received it for three dollars! I heard about the book, and I was always curious to read anything by these legendary female authors before my time. It was a really interesting reading, and I planned to read the rest of the series.
I really loved the main character, Lessa. She is a wonderful, fastidious girl, riding a dragon … what doesn’t love!? In fact, what makes me most encounter is how the book describes her anger. She has a tragic foundation of all kinds, and is actually mistreated in many ways throughout the book events. She was very angry, for plausible reasons, and was not afraid to stand up for her belief and would say to anyone who stopped her. She is as cool as hell! We see more descriptions of anger in women’s characters today, but not always … this book comes from the late 1960s, so Lessa felt a bit ahead of her time, which I really like.
What are you keeping your eyes on the next?
Recently I had been in a bookstore that used and discovered a beautiful copy of Octavia Butler. I am a big fan of her books, so I am always looking for them when I’m in used bookstores … I really like the old prints of her books, but they rarely discover it directly. So I was super psychologically to finally find a person in nature! I was introduced to Butler’s work in a science fiction literature course at the university, where we read my mind. The sow’s book and parable are definitely my favorite books ever. Her work feels really timeless, especially in the way it shows the chaos of society. I think her work is always related, but it feels particularly deep in the current state of the world …
What is the quote or scene from a book that is most attached to you?
Emily Dickinson’s work is always trapped in my mind, maybe more than any poet. I love how to use her normal language. Her poems are often very vulgar, which I am really inspired by a writer. I actually read a lot of her work while working on lost records: Bloom & Rage, and we consulted her a few times in the game … So obviously I couldn’t even stop thinking about her work even when I did the game, Haha! One of my favorite excerpts from her work will be:
“This is my letter to the world, never writing to me.”
I was always attacked by these two lines. It is from a poem that can be read in a number of ways, but for me, it shows the feeling of being seen and heard in a society that is not necessarily concerned about what you say. It made me back to be a teenager … And I’m sure this is a feeling that many artists have at some point. Sometimes you have something to say, and feel like no one listens … but you continue to scream! It is great that such a small poem can evoke a complex feeling/experience of people.
Which book do you find yourself bothering your friends to read?
I am a big fan of Ursula K. Leguin! Perhaps I have suggested that the left hand of darkness is much more than I can count. At first I read this book right after high school. I have never encountered a book that has solved sex and sex in such an interesting way. I was quite young and naive when reading it, haha, so it really had a great impact on me and how I saw art. It motivated me to discover the history of feminist literature when I was in college, and also had a lifelong concern for science fiction literature.
Want to see someone adapted to a game?
I read Madeline Miller’s Circe last year. I remember reading it and thinking that someone should make a game about Circe, only in general. An adaptation of the book will be completely amazing … But I also think that a small game where you play as Circe exile, develop witches, herbs and skills on Aiaia, will create a really great game. Maybe something started with a Farming SIM loop, but then developed into an adventure … I really want to develop a game player for Circe on her island and then go and fight some gods!
I hope that the interruption of this column will give the potential time to read and thus, naming each book that each book is written completely broken for the second week of running. Therefore, I have no other options but to continue to column indefinitely. Books for now!
