Book reports, other reports

[garran]

Once more, I've answered people's questions on books. (All of those but the last are written from a perspective assuming that the addressed has also read it, although I avoided spoilers.) Check out the rest of the thread for further remarks from commenters including cola's story of how he stole something from the library once.

Speaking of libraries, this is a clumsy segue. I tend to disambiguate the three library systems I patronize in my own head by referring to the NVDPL as the 'District Library', the NVCL as the 'City Library', and the VPL as the 'VPL'. Recently it's occurred to me that the second of these, at least, is useful to nobody but me, since anyone else will (and does) naturally assume that when I say 'City Library', the city I'm talking about is downtown.

Speaking of things I got from the libraries, and since graphic novels don't come up in my novel-reading posts, I want to register that Scott Pilgrim is really good. No, better than that.

I finished both of my essays due the beginning of this last week on time; the one for Ethics was just barely the minimum length, and the one for Existentialism was about a page over the stated maximum, which I think indicates mostly that Existentialism is harder to talk about. It's interesting that, when I'm not actually engaged in writing an essay, I forget what the composition actually feels like; I can already feel it fading out to something vague and nebulous that, when it comes up again next term, I'll mostly have to assume that I can do out of a sort of faith in history. Meanwhile, I have two finals left -- Existentialism, tomorrow, and then Japanese on Thursday, neither of which I have studied for quite so much as I should -- and then the jewels will be ours -- forever!