Wandering in caves for days in a daze

Have to give Land of Painted Caves back to the library, which is too bad as I haven't finished it and I can't renew it because 60 people have it on hold. It's really quite a marvellous textbook. Very interesting descriptions of hunting, foraging, cooking, building, travel, art and society in the Stone Age. I've learned all sorts of stuff about the flora, fauna and weather of that time too. I would highly recommend assigning sections of this text to students learning about herbs, or evolutionary biology, or wilderness survival.

Wait - you mean it's not supposed to be a textbook?

How could it not be a textbook? I'm 489 pages in and so far there has been no hint of plot. Or character development. Or anything other than travelling around looking at caves, discussing cave paintings, eating near caves, singing in caves, peeing in caves, caves caves caves. Oh and repeating everyone's names and affiliations, and introducing people to domesticated animals, crossbows, and foreign accents, and singing the blessed Mother Song.

Anyway, I'm putting the book on hold so I can finish it when it's next available. I really am enjoying it, in a history-geeky, totally not-holding-out-for-a-story kind of way.

Writer's Block: An intimate portrait

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Dances With Nerds.

My EYES!!

Ah, yeah, under Things I Did Not Need to Know: there's real person fanfic starring The Beatles. As in, together. If you know what I mean.



I mean, to each his own and all that, but I need some serious brain bleach.