I have long wondered what it says about American labour productivity that this site and its predecessor always seemed the most active (the boards, at least) during American working hours.


Erm. Wasn't really planning to... though as it happens I'm currently reading Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, which I imagine isn't really what you had in mind when you wrote "darker", but is still depressing enough to count as "dark" in my book. Rest of the month will probably see me going back to my neverending Qur'an, so likely not many new "darker fictions" reads, no.

Heard of Ligotti and Kiernan, and Brite's name looks familiar too. Kiernan's the only one I can name a title of, though, and I haven't read any book by any of them.

I do read and review fictions. And non-fictions for that matter. Perhaps not as many as I'd like, but oh well. I think I'll write a review of the book on the early Muslim conquests that I just read while on holiday.

I have not.


Yes, I've read Maus.

Having heard nothing about this until now, I'm going to have to guess that it's something about the writing of Maus? Which seems kind of odd because Maus was already about both the Holocaust and the difficulties in getting past it... seems like this would kind of cover the same ground in that regard. RandomHouse's website seems to confirm that... if it really comes with audio interviews of Spiegelman's father, that could certainly be interesting, but it feels a little too invasive to me somehow - it was bad enough to show the man's dark sides to the world in Maus.