Spike ,'Touched'
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."
DH read Shop Class as Soulcraft.
It was a confusing book for him. Mainly because Matt does believe that working with your hands does feed your soul. However, the author made a bunch of assumptions that Matt really couldn't buy into. Unfortunately , I only vaguely remember that there was a more conservative spin on things.
eta: I knew of Cheever and The Lost city of Z. I knew none of the fiction. So odd that I knew so little
Hmmmm, nothing I recognize on the list. [looks at books scattered on every horizontal surface] I sure thought I read a goodly number of good books.
Stitches is making a buzz because it's a National Book Awards finalist for Young Adult and a lot of people who read/write YA are going "buzzah?" because it certainly wasn't marketed and I don't believe it's shelved as a YA but because it's part graphic novel and the story is the author's own as an adolescent, it's being viewed as such.
But yeah, a lot of people in genre/commercial fiction are flipping out at the list because it seems even more exclusionary than in the past.
I'd read about Stitches and it looked interesting, but I don't know much about most of the other books on the list.
The only book on that list I've even heard of is Await Your Reply, which a friend recommended to me and sounds like something I'd like.
Me too. I have it on hold at the library; however, being 61 of 81, I think it will be awhile.
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt.
I desperately want to read this! But I'll wait until it's either out in paperback or until I can get it at the library.
If you have a Barnes and Noble member card you can get the complete Harry Potter books boxed set from the folio society for $14.95. link
ETA: Nevermind it is one of those things where you have to promise to order other books in the future.
I am having trouble getting into "The Yiddish Policeman's Union." It's not that I dislike it, but I just have no momentum. I've already renewed it at the library once. Should I keep going or give up?
Dana, I liked it somewhat. But if you aren't making forward progress and you are on week 5, then by all means, cut yourself loose. Life is too short to read mediocre books.
I liked it, probably my favorite Chabon, but it's not like it suddenly gets more interesting partway through. It's pretty consistent. So if you haven't gotten into it, it may not be for you.