Cold Bean Porridge and a Virgin Milkmaid

Book porn, bad poetry (mine), good poetry (reblogged), ideas for stories I'll never write, and dumb thoughts recycled from Facebook.  Atheist, vaguely queer, nervous and indecisive, not a social creature. Mostly harmless. Easily confused. Slippery when wet.

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If you love reading about socialism, art, modern dance, mysticism, and the minutes of every post-WWI European peace conference, with a dash of action and adventure thrown in - or, in better words, “antifascist propaganda entertainingly packaged in the wrappers of popular literature” - check out the “Lanny Budd” series by Upton Sinclair, published 1940-1953, Curtis Books reprints 1973. 

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As a bonus, this series probably includes the strangest and unlikeliest nickname for Adolf Hitler in all of literature:

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If you love reading about socialism, art, modern dance, mysticism, and the minutes of every post-WWI European peace conference, with a dash of action and adventure thrown in - or, in better words, “antifascist propaganda entertainingly packaged in the wrappers of popular literature” - check out the "Lanny Budd" series by Upton Sinclair, published 1940-1953, Curtis Books reprints 1973. 

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Lanny Budd #2-11 by Upton Sinclair

Now if I could only find that blasted first book in the series…

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Update: found ‘em all! Several years ago, in fact. I just never bothered to update.

@aries-meets-scorpio​ I found all mine on AbeBooks, there’s always cheap copies popping up on there.

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Moving Update: Library assembled!

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Lanny Budd #2-11 by Upton Sinclair

Now if I could only find that blasted first book in the series…

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The Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair (born September 20th, 1878). Anyone else read these? Heck, has anyone else even found these in their local bookstores? Because the first volume is impossible to find…

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Moving update: this hallway is going to hold SO. MANY. BOOKCASES.

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42 boxes. 2,300+ books.

I am never moving again.

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It me.

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42 boxes, 2300+ books. I am never moving again.

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Important questions

Animorphs question: If Visser Three used his Andalite body to morph into another Yeerk, could he infest a second body, thus controlling two hosts? And, if that body was also morph-capable, could he morph ANOTHER Yeerk, infest another morph-capable body, and keep repeating the process until he purposely ran over the two-hour time and the entire line of hosts were stuck permanently in a horrific conglomeration of screaming minds stacked inside each other like a living matryoshka doll made entirely of brains?

That’s probably something that kept the Andalites up at night.

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May the Fourth, etc.

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“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”

Byron’s Letters and Journals in 11 volumes plus index, edited by Leslie A. Marchand. From Belknap Press.

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And the award for Most Unusual Nickname For Adolf Hitler goes to...

DRAGON HARVEST BY UPTON SINCLAIR!

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The more things change, the more they stay the same..

(Upton Sinclair, 1945)

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Now that Shuri is a Disney Princess, I want a Black Panther/Beauty and the Beast crossover just so she and Belle's dad can geek out over their inventions.

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“Okay, we need a new design for our chip bags, something that’ll really stand out.” “How about teeth?” “Teeth?” “Yeah, just, like, giant teeth covering half the bag. Big ol’ teeth.” “Perfect.”

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“HAPPY teeth, though. I can’t stress that enough.”

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“I dunno, still feels like we’re missing something.” “A tongue?” “Genius.”

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“Okay, we need a new design for our chip bags, something that’ll really stand out.” “How about teeth?” “Teeth?” “Yeah, just, like, giant teeth covering half the bag. Big ol’ teeth.” “Perfect.”

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“HAPPY teeth, though. I can’t stress that enough.”