Books read, 2007

[dreamer_easy]

Greg Bear. Slant.
Brian Michael Bendis. Fortune and Glory.
William S. Burroughs. Queer.
Dominique Collon. The Queen of the Night (British Museum Objects in Focus).
Marcel Cohen. In Search of a Lost Ladino.
Michael David Coogan. Stories from Ancient Canaan.
Douglas Coupland. JPod.
Piers Moore Ede. Honey and Dust.
Stefan Fatsis. Word Freaks.
Ian Fleming. Casino Royale.
- Live and Let Die.
Wanda Gag. Millions of Cats.
Niall Griffiths. Runt.
- Sheepshagger.
- Stump.
- Wreckage.
Richard Hammond. On The Edge.
Jonathan Harley. Lost in Transmission.
bell hooks. Bone Black.
Nick Hornby. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree.
- Fever Pitch.
- How to be Good.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
- Crome Yellow.
Arvid S. Kapelrud. The Violent Goddess.
Etgar Keret. The Nimrod Flip-Out.
Betty MacDonald. The Egg and I.
Magnus Mills. The Restraint of Beasts.
Me. Return of the Living Dad.
George Orwell. A Clergyman's Daughter.
- Coming up for Air.
- The Road to Wigan Pier.
Paul Radin. The Trickster: a study in American Indian mythology.
Rainbow Spirit Elders. Rainbow Spirit Theology.
Ali Rattansi. Racism: A Very Short Introduction.
Ruth Rendell. A Guilty Thing Surprised.
Lionel Shriver. Ordinary Decent Criminals (aka The Bleeding Heart).
Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. Oy gevalt.
Jacqueline Susann. Valley of the Dolls.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
- Kingdom of Fear.
Fred Waitzkin. Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Tom Wolfe. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.

Notable short stories
John Baxter. The Hands. In Carnell, John (ed) New Writings in SF: 6. Corgi, London, 1965. Argh!!
James Tiptree Jr. The Women Men Don't See. Wanted to see if this had any relevance to DW S3. It doesn't. But I did understand the story much better on the re-read. And Tiptree's relentless prose!

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I think Jon needs a present.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3698691.htm

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Eeeee!

[rodinia.livejournal.com]

Just came along your journal and read 2007, 31. I thought: panic, it's already that date. Then I realised the exam I'm currently learning for is 30 March and I panicked again because I thought I missed it, and then, after having wiped my eyes that the date on this entry is 31 december. Dear Kate, you really know how to scare visitors who just come strolling past.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ay yi yi yi yi yi!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Kate-

So glad I found your blog here! I've been wondering what you've been up to- I miss the occasional "What Kate's been up to" newsletters you'd send out, and I _definitly_ miss your Doctor Who novels. I look forward to reading over things here and catching up. Hope John is doing well, as well. Tell him Maryland hasn't changed much, at least it hadn't when I was there last in December.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Hey dude! Long time no see!

ARGGHHH

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I'm about halfway through August 2004 now. And there are so many posts I've read that I wanted to comment on, but it seemed really weird to comment on things nearly three years past.

So, would it be weird to make comments?

On an different tack, why is the latest post in your LJ dated December 31st, 2007?

Re: ARGGHHH

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

My suggestion: read backwards until you get bored. (Comment on whatever you like, though. :-)

The forward dating on my "books read" posting keeps it at the top of my LJ, where I can gaze at it in ill-read despair.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Not sure where to stick this (insert joke here), but I bet you'll enjoy this:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/netflix/netflix-recommends-moses-movie-for-lovers-of-death-wish-3-250077.php

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Clint Eastwood is Gideon!

[mad-march-hare.livejournal.com]

Um. Wandered over from the DW cat macro comm (I do not know how to embed links in comments, so sorry). So, yes. Big and certainly not unwelcome shock.

Um. Usually am not so forward, but I just wanted to say that I LOVED "Seeing I," in a fall-on-my-face-and-abase-myself-before-you kind of way. May I have permission to send you an email with a few questions and futher fannish flutterings?

Thank you for your time.

PS: Please to be LJ friending you, yes?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*big grin*

Ya of course to email and friendage - I'm korman@spamcop.net.

Yay!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

"Walking to Babylon" and "Fallen Gods" were waiting for me when I got home yesterday! I'll have something to read at work overnight tonight!

I had no idea the Telos novellas were so nice. Really impressed by it; I haven't even taken it out of the wrapper yet... I don't want to ruin it.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

BTW Kate, didn't you mention Gliese 581 in one of your books?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It's likely - I'm always shoving in star names. Heaven only knows which book, though!

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

*waves* I keep randomly finding journals of people I have heard of outside of LJ. It's weird. But anyway, hi! Just dropping in to say how much I love your books :o) I finished Seeing I a week ago and loved it! Definitely the best of the Sam-runs-away story arc. I've been kinda wishing she would stay away because I think she's rather boring, but you actually gave her character! The only time I could remember her having an interesting character before was in Vampire Science, where she seemed a lot more grown up than in the other books. Oh, and it is Vampire Science that has my favourite image of book!Eight - breakfast opera. It's been almost a year since I read that book, but the image stays with me *grins* Plus, y'know, vampires. Always cool.

At the moment I am racing through a Benny Summerfield in order to get to one of your NAs. I have about thirty books borrowed from a friend - equal measures of NAs, EDAs and Bennys, and I read them in rotation. I keep counting the pages left until I can pick up The Left-Handed Hummingbird :o) I'm really hoping (and have quite a lot of confidence) that you've made Seven a bit more... well, Doctorish. Than he is in the other NAs, I mean. In the other books, there are moments when I just grin at how Doctorish he's being, but his 'manipulator of all the chess pieces' persona rubs me up the wrong way for most of the time. I read it cos it's still Who, but I'm losing confidence in the NAs - hoping you can renew that :o) I need to see some more of Seven's actual episodes, that's what I need to do.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Just wanted to say "yay, you're a brilliant author!" And your husband too. Oh, and would you mind if I borrowed the question-mark boxer shorts from Seeing I for a fic of mine? :o)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thanks dude! Hope you enjoy TLHH. And yes please, use the boxers (and link me to your fic! :-)

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

Yiha!
There was a big envelop from Australia waiting for me when I returned from uni this evening. Both "Room with no Doors" and "Walking to Babylon" survived the long flight prefectly well and I can't wait to read them. I'm especially curious about what you did to poor Seven this time. Hmmmpf.. according to my own weired set of rules of not reading anything from the same authors in a succession of four books I still have to be patient for about 14 days. I just finished Vampire Science, which I really enjoyed. A wonderful introduction to the Eight books for me; I loved him immediately. Aww, the cute kittens and the vampire snail made me giggle hopelessly while sitting in the cramped commuter train. Thanks a lot.

I wonder, for which Doctor/Benny did you personally enjoy writing the most and why?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I wonder, for which Doctor/Benny did you personally enjoy writing the most and why?

The Seventh Doctor, I think. I may have lusted embarrassingly after Paul McGann, but the Seventh Doctor feels like my "home turf". :-)

Something to make Kate happy

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

This should cheer you up, if you haven't heard the news already.

Paul Cornell will be the new writer on the Excalibur comic book.


http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg

Re: Something to make Kate happy

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

How cool is that?

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I don't have anywhere to reply since you deleted the entry --

But if there's another post with a spoiler without a cut (and I *swear* I posted with a cut, html must have screwed up), could you warn instead of instant deletion? Because I'd have liked to keep the comments (and I'm sure anyone else with 10+ comments on an entry), and it was also up for hours and no one had complained. I'd have fixed if I'd realized my cut didn't work. Not gonna bother to repost, because frankly, I think most people had already seen it.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Check your postings to make sure your cut worked.

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

Was A Clergyman's Daughter good?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yes, and funny - but also crazy-making. Be prepared to grind your teeth at some of the characters' actions!

[the-cockfighter.livejournal.com]

Re-reading Return of the Living Dad, because I really wanted to do a comparison with this and Father's Day. But in Part Two, what I'm starting to pick up are ideas that seem to be some of the core ideas of the new series. Chief among these are "consequences" (there are other's - can't recall them at the moment). Its a little scary, but RotLD is like a proto-new series story.

BTW you often refer to Roz as "the black woman". Do you think that's because that's how other characters see her, or is it important visibility stand you are making?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

The influence of the NAs on the new Who is unmistakeable. q00l

Nah, it's authorial laziness - the Doctor cycles through "the Doctor", "he", "the Time Lord", "the little man".

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I swiped your idea for my LJ, but I'm doing something that you might also be interested in doing: I'm linking each book to it's amazon.com entry, so that anyone who is intrigued can follow the link to find out more about the book, or possibly purchase it as well.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

You know, you can make money doing that!

Vaguely related

[biscit.livejournal.com]

There was a question on last weeks "The Book Quiz" on BBC4.
(If there's one thing Doctor Who got wrong, it's the fact BBC3's news was too boring, stuffy and seventies)

"Terrance Dicks, Kate Orman and Justin Richards all write books based around which TV Character"

I'm afraid I didn't catch the answer.

Re: Vaguely related

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*silly grin*

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Can I distract you from genetics for a few minutes with this:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/privacy/proposed-legislation-in-ohio-would-require-women-to-get-a-mans-permission-to-have-an-abortion-285381.php

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yuck! Thanks for the heads-up!

Yay! Intolerence!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Another fun link for you!

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/07/17/news/casper/88d8fdf4b4e017548725731b00006a13.txt

(This is happening in the state I live in)

I need to send TGC after them:

http://www.fearthegaychicken.com

Re: Yay! Intolerence!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Gods, Phelps is an attention whore.

I think you'll find this interesting:

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/21/more_on_the_passing_.html

Re: I think you'll find this interesting:

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

omg ta!

(You're allowed to email me if you want btw - korman@spamcop.net. :-)

suggestion

[kelleed.livejournal.com]

Modoc - Ralf Helfer

Re: suggestion

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I looked this up, and it sounds lovely - I'll keep an eye out for it! Ta!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

You stand there, waiting for
the rush of exhilaration
you thought you'd feel - but
It doesn't come.

...

All you saw was the top of that mountain -
there was no one to tell you
about the Valley of the Dolls.