My editing and publishing teacher asked us to bring in examples of good and bad flap copy (aka, the back copy of a book that entices you to read it).
For an example of good flap copy, I quoted Jennifer Crusie's flap copy for Faking It.
My teacher wasn't impressed because it mentioned a secret in the protagonists past. Yet three students asked me for the title and author name after I finished.
- Mood:
frustrated
So... talk to me flist? I need distractions. That aren't, you know, thirty chapter fics.
On of my professor's required that we visit a bookstore this weekend, which was both fun and made me crave pleasure-reading. (Which is so not happening right now because any time I'm not reading textbooks I'm researching for my Europe trip).
Also, I bumped into the book A Northern Light, which I remember reading and loving. Even more than Maddie herself (the protagonist), what I recall most is here poetry-publishing, cigerette-smoking suffragette teacher and her black best friend. I didn't care about it being early 1900s - I wanted him (I can't remember his name) and Maddie to wind up together. They would have vocabulary duels, people. That is how adorable and OTP they were.
- Mood:
nervous
Normally, I can study just fine to music with vocals, but not this time. My own thoughts distract me.
So, could you spam me with some of your favorite (or at least successful) instrumental studying music?
And if I manage to sell The Writing of the Disaster back to the college (which I better), I feel so sorry for the person who is going to buy it after me. I'm marking the hell out of it in the vain attempt to make Maurice Blanchot comprehensible and writing bitchy comments in the margins when he attempts to defend anti-semitism.
- Mood:
irritated
Which, given my genre tastes, made me really sad. Seriously, am I the only person who didn't grow into reading classy books?
This week's
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fannish5 :Name your five favorite fictional kids.
5.) Bailey, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
4.) Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family.
3.) The Listener, Legend of the Seeker.
2.) Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird.
1.) The Archive. (Ivy! How are you so awesome, little Miss Badass?)
- Mood:
cynical
Seriously, it was like reading a Naruto/Sasuke fanfic with bonus ooc!Sakura for English credit.
- Mood:
bitchy
- Music:this year - the mountain goats
D-O-N-E.
I took my pysch finale (cumulative, 85 questions), turned in my poetry portfolio with accompanying essay and turned in my Gothic essay (a full 48 hours early).
Fuck yeah.
Now I'm going to celebrate by taking my vitamins, drinking lots of OJ, and having a nice nap.
What really sucks? The last test was on gender and I thought I'd done really, really well.
- Mood:
depressed
Editing my paper for Gothic Lit. I have used colons and semi-colons like they're going out of style in the first draft.
Thus, I cut them out like Hemingway with emotional or ethical obligations.
Also, I forgot to mention, I watched the finale of HIMYM, which I really enjoyed except
Also, if you posts in your lj about the finale would you mind dropping me a link? I'd love to know what other people thought.
It is clearly the final month of school; I'm stressed, my to-do list needs two sticky notes to get everything on it, etc.
So if I haven't replied to your comment, it's probably because you wrote something that will take me more than two seconds to respond to; don't worry, I'll respond. Just... not right away.
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Secondly, the latest fandom_secrets post was so incredibly wank-tastic and troll worthy, that it deserves it's own WTF commentary. I'm not going to go into details, except that I have something brief to say about the Sasuke/Sakura/Hinata/Naruto (not in the fun orgy way) secret, since people on my flist are already talking about it:
1.) Sasuke/Sakura and Hinata/Naruto ARE NOT correlated variables: one can happen without the other.
2.) Stepping back from the details of the pairings themselves (since I think everyon already knows my opinion on that), wouldn't it be incredibly problematic if they both happened? Doesn't that send a horrible message to both girls and boys about how girls should just endlessly pursue the object of their desire? And boys should just go 'oh, okay' regardless of who THEY want to be with, because those girls spend so much energy on them? It takes (or it SHOULD) two to tango and neither Sasuke nor Naruto has shown that they are romantically interested in Sakura and Hinata, respectively. Which leads me to point three:
3.) Kishimoto is not writing a romantic adventure manga. Arguing about which pairing will be canon at this time is pointless because Kishimoto has not given us ANYTHING CLOSE to a clear canon signal about what relationships will end up being canon (one-sided crush does not equal 'will be canon'). This is not Avatar: we don't know how Team 7's romantic lives will work out and it's actually somewhat probable with Kishimoto's emphasis on nakama that we WILL NOT get a bunch of pairings in the epilogue (please god).
Thirdly, I watched Star Trek on Sunday and it was the most awesome movie I have seen since Iron Man. Longer post to follow... sooner or later.
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penknife :You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in comments. (examples: "Five Things Tsunade Wishes She'd Told Jiraiya" or "Five Things Rock Knows About Revy That She Doesn't Know He Knows"). I comment and answer you.
Also, here's where I stand on the amazon!fail (quoted from what I said when I signed a petition):
"Amazon's decision to unrank books with homosexual themes strikes me as a blatant attempt to further stigmatize homosexuality as something unnatural and wrong, something that SHOULD be out of character for a bookseller, who one would expect to be against censorship in all forms."
I cause anyone actually wondered what my opinion on that issue was. (And rereading, I could have phrased what I wanted to say better. clarity!fail!)
- Mood:overwhelmed
(And yes, I could talk about Hawthorne as a prefeminist author and how while he finds the standards of femininity of his time problematic, he ends up questioning and then supporting them within his work. And yeah, I could write about this for my final essay, but... I really don't enjoy reading Hawthorne.)
Apparently, when you're out sick for a week, that psych test that is just forever away is suddenly in a week.
Also, during Dollhouse, I did not have good enough reception to get that the Amy Acker character had facial scars. I actually think that's pretty cool.
Women: beautiful, pretty, cute.
Men: sexy, hot, breathtaking.
Which was interesting. Mainly I was thinking of all the words we have for 'stupid' and how Japanese only has one.
Also, this weeks
fannish5 :List the five most surprising moments in any canon.
(I picked good surprising instead of bad surprising).
Beware, spoilers!
1.) Princess Tutu. ( Read more... )
2.) Avatar. ( Read more... )
3.) Firefly. ( Read more... )
4.) Naruto. SAI. I was spoiled for basically everything that happened in Naruto, except for Sai. My reaction, when I got to this hot, competent, badass shinobi with believable angst who is willing to IMPROVE HIMSELF who was saying everything we think about Sasuke totally unapologetically, has the best abs ever (seriously, can I lick his hipbones? Please?) and that delightfully massive crush on Sakura was this: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST 282 CHAPTERS AND WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT YOU BEFORE?
5.) Soul Eater. ( Read more... )
(Admittedly, I can't be SURE this is sexual, but I certainly don't make sheep sounds when I'm with MY boyfriend.)
- Mood:
discontent
