Derek Landy - Skullduggery Pleasant
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
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."
sumi - Dec 30, 2010 10:38:56 am PST #13359 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2010 1:15:52 pm PST #13360 of 28282
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Skulduggery Pleasant
It is! And they are awesome!
SO AWESOME!
-t - Dec 30, 2010 2:04:56 pm PST #13361 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I gobbled up all of the Parasol Protectorate this week. What a charming series!
Kat - Dec 30, 2010 5:12:32 pm PST #13362 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Megan, I LOVE The name of your blog! Clever!
Also, what a great challenge. I'll be re-reading Possession because I teach it in a month or two.
megan walker - Dec 30, 2010 5:29:22 pm PST #13363 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Thanks Kat! It's based on my college nickname (from people mispelling my name on my door message whiteboard). I'll be reading Possession right after the Eco since our salon after "Atheism" is "Books and the Bookish."
Dana - Dec 30, 2010 5:41:39 pm PST #13364 of 28282
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I liked Possession. I should reread it.
Beverly - Dec 30, 2010 7:23:36 pm PST #13365 of 28282
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Byatt's Possession? Loved. Lovedlovedloved. And every other Byatt I attempted to read after it failed to thrill me.
Barb - Dec 30, 2010 7:25:30 pm PST #13366 of 28282
“Not dead yet!”
Add me to the list of those who loved Possession.
Kat - Dec 31, 2010 3:45:47 am PST #13367 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Beverly, TOTALLY agree. I adored Possession, but everything else was sort of meh.
It's a support novel/lit circle choice for my AP unit on Romance (both in the classical sense and the modern). Possession is a good one because it spans both the classical definition of questing and the modern. (Other choices are Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Last of the Mohicans).
Strix - Dec 31, 2010 4:48:25 am PST #13368 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I liked Possession, was meh on her other stuff. Much like Donna Tartt. I REALLY loved The Secret History, but The Little Friend? Bored me to tears.
I've got to start some re-reading. I'm starting off next semester with three classes, and doing Beowulf, Oedipus and A Room of One's Own, none of which I've actually taught, but which I know pretty well.