Reread the last chapter. Everything you need to know is right there.
I ended up really loving Vasily Fet, the exterminator. He was a really pleasant surprise.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
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."
Amy - Jan 20, 2011 5:08:15 pm PST #13685 of 28289
Because books.
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2011 5:20:10 pm PST #13686 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hey, on that $20 Amazon gift card for $10 from yesterday -- apparently LivingSocial sold well over 1 million of them. Daaaaaaaamn.
Liese S. - Jan 20, 2011 5:27:30 pm PST #13687 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
If I were buying another Pratchett book for my nook, and I'm not saying I am, what with the thirty or so public domain books I downloaded over the weekend and all, but if I were, should I buy Nation, which I have not read, but is out of the Discworld, or Wee Free Men, which I have read, but my current library doesn't have and I love and also I have the last Tiffany Aching book so I could get the first and start building that collection which I don't have in paper?
-t - Jan 20, 2011 5:47:01 pm PST #13688 of 28289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nation is really good. Highly recommend. Though building up the Tiffany Aching collection is never wrong.
erikaj - Jan 21, 2011 4:29:44 am PST #13689 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
I love that book, Barb. It's both relatable and very different from what I knew when I read it at the same time...tough balance to strike and I really admired it.
Fred Pete - Jan 21, 2011 5:04:54 am PST #13690 of 28289
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dangerous Liaisons is an interesting idea; is it accessible?
At least as accessible as most 18th century works, and probably more so. If there's an issue, it's more the than the 18th-centuryness. You'd want to spend a fair amount of time on "What do Valmont and Merteuil really mean when they say that?"
I don't know whether Cry the Beloved Country has the reputation that it once did. I also read Camus's The Plague for a class in high school, though I can't say I "got" the symbolism attached to it.
Strix - Jan 21, 2011 8:26:48 am PST #13691 of 28289
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
How about a Julia Alvarez or Isabelle Allende title?
Duuuude, we are scary brain-twins! I was about to say that!
Allende's "The Stories of Eva Luna" are SS, which might be good if you are worried about length.
Bookrags also has a pretty strong study guide for TSofEL: [link]
Kat - Jan 21, 2011 6:14:27 pm PST #13692 of 28289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love Cry the Beloved Country. I was just thinking about trying to write a grant for it for next year. But I have to wait for next year to materialize before I can do that. I think it would be perfect for "passion" and it's an easy read.
I'm in the midst of teaching Jane Eyre for the first time ever. I am re-reading it. Good LORD it's a fun read.
Dana - Jan 21, 2011 6:16:33 pm PST #13693 of 28289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I've started reading The Moonstone. I read The Woman in White ages ago, but I don't remember it too well, so I was surprised that the first few chapters of The Moonstone are actually pretty funny.
Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2011 6:20:52 pm PST #13694 of 28289
brillig
The Moonstone was a surprisingly good read. I got bogged down in The Woman in White.