Bin ich noch zu retten?

Today, I found myself browsing the manga shelves at Border's, and before I knew it, I was sitting in one of the soft armchairs and spending an hour glued to the pages of vol. 1 of ( Fake, by Sanami Matoh )

. I've only ever read one previous yaoi manga (pretty boy-on-boy love) and was a bit *shrug* but this one? Somehow, this particular artwork just... *guh* It's just as well that, unlike men, we can hide our state of er, privacy, when out in public.

I was quite hot and bothered.

I didn't buy it, though, because this month I don't have mounds in the bank. I'll see if I can get the whole series more cheaply online. And then I will photocopy the droolpics and glue them all around my desk. Erm, or not (t'sons!).

*winks at orlisbunny: I am finally succumbing!*

Any recs? I know nothing of this genre. I've browsed amazon listmania lists to get some idea. Some of the styles totally do not agree with me, if the boys are too skinny or too ethereal or the sex is too graphic or the boys are too cutesy.

Also, bishonen experts on my flist: why does the style sometimes veer from semi-realistic to cutesy-attenuated, with big mouths and very schematised facial features?

Desert Prince narratologised

I'm writing Desert Prince again.

Yesterday and day before, I got myself into it again. I haven't looked at this in years! But there it is, all fresh and ready to leap to life. I just re-read the whole thing. And made notes. And at some point in the past, I had actually made myself a set of plot point cards! So I put all those in order.

I know the ending, of course. The ending shapes the whole story.

I was inspired by your generous and unexpected poll responses wherein enthusiasm for DP was shown. Motivation!!

Anyway, it is interesting to re-read DP at the same time as reading Proust's Swann's Way, vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past. Because both are written in the first person.

Which reminds me of Genette. Because it is Genette who got me onto Proust in the first place. I can't remember if I got this from Genette, or from Mieke Bal, or from elseone, but the first person lends itself superbly to omniscient narration. In fact, it is perhaps the grammatical person best and most suited to what is generally known as omniscient narration (but which Genette calls 'zero focalisation' (wherein the narrator says more than the characters know).

Here's a beautiful example of this in Proust: ( read on )

Amano Yamane's Finder

Dear yaoi-knowlegeable flist:

If I wanted to read Amano Yamane's Finder series, vol.1 (sometimes known as Viewfinder, I have no idea why), and if this cost 70 pounds to buy second-hand in the UK and was out-of-print, and if the US seller won't ship to the UK...

where might I, *cough*, view this item?