I loved My Antonia. I liked The Awakening but for some reason totally missed the part where she kills herself at the end. I thought she was going for a refrshing swim.
But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken. It's hard for you.
River ,'Safe'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Dec 02, 2009 8:04:26 am PST #10448 of 28370
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Steph L. - Dec 02, 2009 8:29:05 am PST #10449 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
T-Rex fixes great works of fiction: [link]
T-Rex *almost* makes me want to re-read Moby Dick.
ALMOST.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 8:34:46 am PST #10450 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha, Sophia. That's basically ALL I remember about The Awakening.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2009 8:40:26 am PST #10451 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked it, but admittedly, not a page-turner. But that's probably what my great-grandma was kind of like, even though we don't come from Bohemia but a part of Germany that was often Poland.
sj - Dec 02, 2009 9:29:35 am PST #10452 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’d like every other book to be one I should have read but haven’t.
That is a great idea, Megan! I used to read mostly classics, but I have been feeling guilty about hardly reading any lately. I added the English version of the Cleves book to my wishlist (I don't read French). I had never heard of it before.
megan walker - Dec 02, 2009 9:37:50 am PST #10453 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've read many classics, especially English and French nineteenth century, but there always seems to be some key book I haven't got to. This all started with having to admit I hadn't read Don Quixote.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 9:39:49 am PST #10454 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think we may have read part of it in high school, but I don't think I've read it all.
sj - Dec 02, 2009 9:40:28 am PST #10455 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
This all started with having to admit I hadn't read Don Quixote.
I have only read parts of it, which is something I have to say about a lot of classics thanks to a couple classes from high school and college that only required us to read parts of certain classics.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 02, 2009 9:40:53 am PST #10456 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I read parts of Don Quixote for a Spanish class, but I'm so bad with foreign languages I really couldn't appreciate it as literature.
megan walker - Dec 02, 2009 9:45:01 am PST #10457 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Considering I only took the two standard Freshman English classes in college, one of which was "Poetry/Drama" (that chose not to do drama), and the other was "Short Story/Novel" (that chose not to do novels), it's a wonder I've read anything.