more than two weeks since I've last posted! I should do this more regularly. I think I promised a lot (book reviews, etc) haha so I suppose I have to pay my debts.

oh recently I've read The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, and it's good! I mean I've never read ray bradbury before, despite the fact that many writers strongly recommend it. It's generally a collection of short stories in the SF genre, (squee!) written in the 1950s. It's interesting to see what people think would happen 50 years in the future, 50 years ago. I am kind of attached to fiction written/ set in the late 20th century, because it's sometimes kind of romantic [in the frankenstein way] and carries a sense of nostalgia. Things happened more slowly then, without the conveniences of the internet and mobile phones. Although I technically can't feel nostalgic about things that happened before the 90s because I wasn't born then, there is a greater sense of relation and identity than novels set in today's context.
And then I found out that Dave Mckean[sp?] did a collaboration with Ray Bradbury to illustrate The Homecoming, which got my stamp of approval(: Dave did lots of collaborations with Neil Gaiman in writing the Sandman series, the cover illustration for Coraline, the movie Mirrormask and the children's book, The Wolves in the Walls. The Homecoming is meant for children, yet is dark and beautifully haunting. The blurb goes so far as to call it whimsical; but I prefer to be cool and say it's gothic. XD (it does have gothic elements)

"And my junk is you" -Thea, from Spring Awakening