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.
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Calli - Nov 01, 2009 3:18:18 am PST #10331 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Barb - Nov 01, 2009 4:25:26 am PST #10332 of 28370
“Not dead yet!”
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.
Hil R. - Nov 01, 2009 4:36:06 am PST #10333 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'd read about Stitches and it looked interesting, but I don't know much about most of the other books on the list.
megan walker - Nov 01, 2009 5:59:42 am PST #10334 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Kat - Nov 03, 2009 4:29:47 am PST #10335 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
sj - Nov 04, 2009 10:15:12 am PST #10336 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Dana - Nov 04, 2009 4:46:23 pm PST #10337 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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?
Kat - Nov 04, 2009 5:08:35 pm PST #10338 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
-t - Nov 04, 2009 5:38:03 pm PST #10339 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Jessica - Nov 05, 2009 6:50:38 am PST #10340 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In a move guaranteed to piss off librarians and bookstore employees everywhere, Nov 18th is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day:
Join us this November in a new and unique celebration of science fiction and fantasy literature. Many books from our fine genre are regularly placed in the wrong section of bookstores. This not only hides the books from us, but it prevents readers of those books from discovering the rich tradition to which they belong.
On November 18th that changes. We will go to bookstores around the world and move science fiction and fantasy books from wherever they might be to their proper place in the “Science Fiction” section. We hope that this quiet act of protest will raise awareness of this problem and inspire new readers to explore our thought-provoking genre.