So, I went to the library during lunch today to pick up some light reading (NO MORE taxation), and picked up 3 books.

1. Action Chicks, edited by Sherrie A. Inness
2. Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Words of Science Fiction Television, by Sherry Ginn
3. Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy

It is time like these that I wish I had the same type of interest in light reading when I was doing film-studies. As it is I've come to the realisation as to why I prefer to read fan-written wank than academic-written wank. It is the love and the shameless fanaticism fans show for the object of their obsession. The energy comes through in fan-wank that is greatly lacking in academic-written wank, and I find myself missing the humour and the sheer enthusiasm as I’m reading through the articles.

I do like the articles about women in Farscape though.