I gobbled up all of the Parasol Protectorate this week. What a charming series!
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
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."
-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
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.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2010 5:06:17 am PST #13369 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Mockingjay is ready for me at the library! And they are open today! And it is a long weekend! It is a New Year's miracle!
Liese S. - Dec 31, 2010 7:10:46 am PST #13370 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Dude, I`ve been spending too much time at Other Places. I just cursored up to the nav bar to hit "like" on your post. But yay, libraries. Which reminds me, I need to send off my out of state app for my Philadelphia library card! So I can check out ebooks, since my local library doesn`t do it. Frustrating, because the Phoenix libraries do, but not mine.