He Forgot "Utterly Transparent Innuendos"

LJ Polyamory Bingo

(Link courtesy nchanter, Bingo courtesy tgeller.)

-Hmm, okay, I've got tokens down on "Smug Proclamations of Happiness", "Happy Proclamations of Smugness", and "Vogon Poetry" . . . drat, no bingo yet . . .

(Hey, what's "TL;DR" mean?)

Wilde Meme (Courtesy buxom_bey)

When you see this in someone's blog, quote Oscar Wilde.

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

— Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest", Act II

Books: Christie Again, Bradbury

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

-Another book-on-tape, again read by Hugh Fraser (who does an admirable job), and again a Hercule Poirot mystery. This one is a bit more conventional, being a locked-room murder, where the suspects and victim are all locked up in a plane. I figured out a couple of the plot twists very early on, but the actual solution evaded me. Recommended.

The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury

-The first science fiction I ever read with the knowledge that it was "science fiction" was the short story collection R is for Rocket, by Bradbury. This is another one of his early collections. Many of the stories in here I've read before . . . the title story, in which a spaceship flies toward noon to dip a cup into the sun . . . "The Fog Horn", about a lighthouse and a strange, lost beast . . . "The Great Fire", about the passions of the young . . . and, of course, "A Sound of Thunder", the best time travel story ever written. Many of them I hadn't read before (probably because many of them aren't SF or fantasy, and thus didn't make it into later collections).

-But anyway, I don't need to sell Bradbury to you folks — or do I? If any of my faithful readers are not familiar with Bradbury, I can recommend Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales without reservation. Even if you don't much like SF, I think you won't regret it.