The works of Diana Wynne Jones, starting from the ubiquitous Howl's Moving Castle and working outwards, have been excellent for me in terms of learning to stop accepting excuses for myself and soldier the f*** on. A good thing I discovered them when I did, as my thirty-seventh year has been one HECK of a yakudoshi.
Hero's Crown for keeping moving when you're wounded and exhausted and just want to lay down and stop, but know things will be much worse if you don't deal with them. Actually, all of McKinley's works are excellent balm for the spirit.
Barry Hughart's Number Ten Ox series is excellent for anorexics who resist the thought of recovery, but keep in mind that most anorexia cannot be cured without addressing the zinc deficiency--- food "[won't] taste right." (Harrumph. Another topic for another day.) A pebble against the tsunami, sure, but enough pebbles...
At the other end of the spectrum, Elizabeth Moon's fantasy plus Speed of Dark for otherwise decent-hearted people who do not seem to realize that their personal chaos can have a negative impact upon those who surround them.
So no-one else thought: "Oh, so that's from whence the Mirror Universe stemmed?" (Sorry if it's been mentioned--- sometimes you *have* to rip through the comments because each one is better than the next... and because you need to at least keep up the *appearance* of being neck-and-neck with your offspring on matters geeky...)
I know, I know, it's explained elsewhere, but... mrph. And I wonder if in the "reboot" universe, craggy Spock warns Newhura to wear a tinfoil hat on the day NOMAD shows up, or if he tells his younger self he must "dare her to lick it"?
@ Tracie: some Borders gifts cards may be valid on Amazon...
I wonder if it would work the same with fresh green salsa? You think I'm trying to act like a food snob, but as long as one is picking up tomatillos and chopping onions already, it takes forty-five seconds to peel/ roast the tomatillos and garlic...
De-lurking to add that if one might expect to have much contact with people in college, it's a good time to have one's pertussis vaccinations updated. They aren't lifelong, and it's rather frightening to see the rate at which they will sweep through a college community--- we would literally step over people who had collapsed in the hallways because they were too tired to crawl back to their dorm room--- and we were too tired to help them. I've been told anecdotally that one of the hallmarks of a whooping cough outbreak on campus is the denizens half-jokingly referring to it as "the Plague."
TEVYE: How did this zombie plague get started? I'll tell you: I don't know. But it's a zombipocalyse!
FATHERS:
Passed by the bite of resurrected victims
Feeding on the living, raising up the dead,
Spreading at night from soulless corp’rate labs,
It propagates its gibb’ring moan.
A virus, a virus,
Woke the dead.
MOTHERS:
Radiation from a freakish solar flare; a comet’s tail; a cell phone tower
Glowing gas or atom bombs or neon glare,
(Which maybe caused a virus to mutate).
A radiance, a radiance… woke the dead.
SONS:
They saved the proletariat
By choking their free will.
The bourgeois made equal by their own… consumers.
The Commies, the Commies… woke the dead.
DAUGHTERS:
Daughter: And who did Barzai see
All on the mountaintop? Awakened for a midnight snack,
And never filling…op.
Hungry gods, hungry gods,
woke the dead.
A virus (a radiance...) (the Commies...) (hungry gods...) (a griot...) (Megadeth...) (the guv'mint...)
Woke the dead!
(Your pardon. This sprung into my head unbidden, and I had to get it OUT, even if it meant rudely de-lurking. The tune, it must be noted, is "Tradition" from Fiddler on the Roof. There are no original ideas, and I must assume it's been done before. Still...)
@ #14 & 34: "In the House of the Seven Librarians" is available free online as both a pdf and a podcast. I was introduced to it through the delightful (and, both lamently and recently, defunct) Year's Best Fantasy & Horror series; worth a look, #14, and available in many libraries.
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