Tales of an eccentric redhead radical militant librarian

So I finished Living among headstones: life in a country cemetery by Shannon Applegate a few days ago, and it naturally fed right into my somewhat morbid personality and affinity for cemeteries. It actually inspired me to visit a an old cemetery here in Salem, the Salem Pioneer Cemetery, which is right next to the Cityview Cemetery and Mt. Crest Abbey Mausoleum, as it so happens.

( Oh, death )


Current book: Avatars of the word: from papyrus to cyberspace by James J. O'Donnell. This book is for class (ugh!). I'm only about a chapter and a half into it. The guy rambles a bit, and I'm skeptical of his interpretations of Socrates, but I'm keeping an open mind.

All right, so I know I haven't posted in, well, forever. But for the time being, I'm not going to update on what I've actually been doing and instead comment on a great book I've just read.

This weekend, I finished Sheri S. Tepper's The gate to Women's Country, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel about a society run by women.

As one would expect with such a subject, the story naturally asks the question, "How would society develop if women were in power?" This question has always fascinated me. And Tepper's answer, of sorts, proves even more intriguing.

( Major spoiler alert! )

Anyway, that's my philosophical dilemma for the week. I hope that y'all are doing well.

Current Book: Living among headstones: life in a country cemetery by Shannon Applegate. A fascinating book about a woman (a friend of my mother's and an ex-babysitter of mine, actually) who inherits a family cemetery.