Thursday, August 28, 2008

Good Afternoon




Persepolis ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemanid Dynasty


Good Afternoon

Good afternoon. I finished reading Wikinomics on the train to work this morning. Basically the book is about collaboration between different groups using a computer. I am going to write a review for the book soon. It might take a little while to get all my thoughts together.

This morning, I faxed in the request for a free pass to the New York Anime Festival and put in my paperwork for work to go there.

One book came in for me this afternoon, Linnea Sinclair, Shades of Dark. I really enjoyed her other science fiction romance novel, The Down Home Zombie Blues. I hope this novel is just as good.

I did some more weeding of books this morning. I am starting on the oversize or quarto books focusing on business. There are a lot less of these than in the regular collection, so it should go fairly quickly.

I also wrote my monthly report for my supervisor. It was a little shorter than usual this time. I'll probably be making up for it this coming month. I think there will be a lot for me to do. More than ever.

One of my favorite graphic novel artists is Marjane Satrapi. She has written a number of graphic novels that I have really liked including Embroideries, Chicken With Plums, Persepolis, and Persepolis II. Her graphic novels are about everyday life of ordinary citizens in Iran. The stories are quite interesting and very sophisticated.

I just placed the movie she adapted from her graphic novel, Persepolis on hold. The animation won the Jury Prize for the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. It has won numerous prizes. I am really looking forward to seeing this film. I am currently #29 in the holds queue for the item, so I may have to wait a couple of weeks to get it.

2 comments:

Linnea Sinclair said...

Hi, so glad you enjoyed The Down Home Zombie Blues! And thanks for picking up Shades of Dark. Shades is BOOK 2 in the Gabriel's Ghost Dock 5 series. You kinda oughta sorta read Gabriel's Ghost first. ;-)

You can check out first chapters on the BOOKS page on my site - www.linneasinclair.com.

Happy reading! ~Linnea

Book Calendar said...

Thanks for coming by. I really do enjoy reading science fiction romance books.