Ooh, now that I`m done rereading Dorian I should reread Jane!
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
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."
Liese S. - Jan 21, 2011 6:24:39 pm PST #13695 of 28288
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
erin_obscure - Jan 21, 2011 6:40:04 pm PST #13696 of 28288
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ah, Camus's "The Plague." The first book i ever returned to the library without finishing because i just had no interest in wading through the entire thing. I've always been really fascinated with bubonic plague...but that book was sooooooo boring i will always remember it breaking my life-long belief that one MUST finish any book one starts.
Amy - Jan 21, 2011 6:41:09 pm PST #13697 of 28288
Because books.
Oh, Jane. It's been a while since I reread, but I can quote so much of it anyway. One of my all-time favorites.
meara - Jan 21, 2011 9:42:16 pm PST #13698 of 28288
Ooh, Erin--if you like the plague, and are OK with some scifiness, I recommend books by Ann Benson. (Depending on the book, they're either historic with one of the characters having a bit of woo, or a mix of current and flashbacks to middle ages).
Pix - Jan 21, 2011 10:19:32 pm PST #13699 of 28288
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Yes! I haven't read it in ages but was thinking about it too. I need to reread it.
Ginger - Jan 22, 2011 3:40:29 am PST #13700 of 28288
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ooh, Erin--if you like the plague, and are OK with some scifiness, I recommend books by Ann Benson.
Also Connie Willis's Doomsday Book.
erin_obscure - Jan 22, 2011 8:50:51 am PST #13701 of 28288
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Cool, thanks for the rec's! In the box of shtuff i had stored in my mom's basement was a board game i made in middle school with (fake) rats and fleas as playing pieces. It was very difficult to not die.
megan walker - Jan 23, 2011 7:32:56 am PST #13702 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Aw, man, I was getting so good about not buying books, and Penguin is releasing more affordable clothbounds: Dracula looks gorgeous. I also love the sailing motif for Gulliver's Travels and the cameos for Middlemarch.
sj - Jan 23, 2011 7:42:21 am PST #13703 of 28288
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Tries to remind myself that I do not need to own another copy of Middlemarch
megan walker - Jan 23, 2011 7:50:26 am PST #13704 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Tries to remind myself that I do not need to own another copy of Middlemarch
What's sad is that I haven't yet read Middlemarch and I still want that book. See also, The Woman in White.