Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Speaking of Pullman, has anyone read the Sally Lockhart trilogy?
I loved them, although I haven't read them in a while (a decade, maybe?) I still remember the outraged fury I felt (at the unjust laws, not the book) when I read The Tiger in the Smoke.
I'll have to borrow them from them library again. Yay, books!
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me. So much so that I really couldn't read The Tiger in the Smoke objectively, I just wanted Fred to still be alive.
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me.
Oh yeah. Tears were shed over that one, too.
I think I'm going to have to shelve some of my favorite books under "Cry at the Ending." Haven't read the Pullman yet, but I've got The Plague Dogs and The Incredible Journey.
I did see a "Ruby" dramatization starring Billie Piper and thought it was really good stuff.
Last book that made me cry was Richard Price's "Freedomland"...it ought to, it was essentially an urban recasting of the Susan Smith case.
Wasn't that made into a movie? I fell asleep.
The movie got the *story* right, but didn't capture all the internal stuff or all the history of Dempsy or...which is weird, as Price is a screenwriter, and a good one. I don't know why the adaptation was so disappointing, but then I'm a Price fan also and think his writing is, to use a technical literary term, the shit.
I really liked Clockers, though. We watched that in my film class.
Now that I read the plot description, I see it was quite Wire-esque.
Excellent film. Very different than the book, but both are most excellent.
Publishers Weekly 10 best books of the year, the list is beig slammed - no women , no small press books.