Saturday October 19, 2013  Picked up two fantasy novels from Southeast Library.

Maz Gladstone, Three Parts Dead.  Tor, 2012.  Enjoyable.  Pulpish, with interesting characters and a background which held up. 

Note:  the cover shows a young Black woman, fully clothed.  (Since the book isn't set in our world, "Afro-American" would be inaccurate.) 

Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.  Found it boring.

***Rain mixed with ice pellets today.  Rain mixed with snow coming up.  I think I can put away my shortsleeved shirts.

***comment from soon_lee on LiveJournal, October 19:

"Liver (more mushy) & giblet (more chewy, even sometimes rubbery) have very different textures."

Here's what the OED has to say:

giblets...
the liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/giblets?view=uk
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/giblets

***In conclusion, _Hideous Progeny_ is a thoroughly researched and
well-structured introduction to eugenicist thought on disability in
classic horror films. It reveals eugenicist uses of disability as
pernicious, and offers a variety of nuanced and developed arguments
about the use of horror to undercut eugenical rhetoric, and, more
importantly, presents it as fundamentally unstable, "obsessively
fascinated with the deviance it claimed to abhor" (p. 7). Such
fascination is as relevant to contemporary cultural studies of
disability as it is to 1930s horror films, and _Hideous Progeny_ is a
valuable contribution to discussions of disability, spectacle, and
eugenics in genre fiction and film.

Citation: Hannah Tweed. Review of Smith, Angela M., _Hideous Progeny:
Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema_. H-Disability, H-Net
Reviews. October, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38628


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