Asha emailed and asked whether we could add links to book reviews to the blog. Indeed we can! In fact, some might say that providing links to various and sundry sites is the raison d'etre of blogging.
To get us started, I'll throw up a few for Troll:
From the publisher, Grove Atlantic: Troll, by Johanna Sinisalo Grove has also provided a Reader's Guide
From The Village Voice: The Humanoid Touch: What's Related to Human Beings and Smells Like CK One?
From USA Today: Timely Troll: It's a Myth Thing
From straight.com: Troll, by Johanna Sinisalo
From Creative Loafing Atlanta: Finnish Your Troll
From The Queer Book Club of Washtenaw County, Michigan (which is mirroring our selections, with Book of Salt being next in line): Troll, by Johanna Sinisalo
UPDATE: Here's a few more:
From the Helsingin Sanomat: Should the Human Standard always be a White Hetrosexual Male?, and a profile of the author, Johanna Sinisalo.
Check out The Finnish Institute of Artic Zoology, and its press release. (Hint: spell the URL backwards.)
Some troll links here, here, and here. (That's small-t troll.)
You should also know that, less than twenty miles from my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, is Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, a village settled in large part by Norwegian immigrants. It is known (in typical, myopic American fashion) as "The Troll Capital of the World" and its main drag has been dubbed "The Trollway," a street guarded by statutes of trolls carved from tree trunks.
"Troll" also means a lot of different things.
For example, on the internet, "troll" is "is a slang term for a person who posts messages intended to incite conflict. Sometimes, so-called 'trolling' is a clever way of improving discussion, but often it merely derails discourse and erodes civility."
In gay slang, "troll" is used both as a verb to describe cruising for sex and, derogatively, as a noun by young gay men to describe older, undesirable gay men.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
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