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).
I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
meara - Jan 21, 2011 9:42:16 pm PST #13698 of 28348
Pix - Jan 21, 2011 10:19:32 pm PST #13699 of 28348
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 28348
"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 28348
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 28348
"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 28348
"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 28348
"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.
Amy - Jan 23, 2011 7:55:09 am PST #13705 of 28348
Because books.
Oooh, my paperback copy of Dracula is falling apart ...
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2011 7:57:55 am PST #13706 of 28348
brillig
What a beautiful binding for Woman in White! Is there one for The Moonstone?
Holli - Jan 23, 2011 8:02:33 am PST #13707 of 28348
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Ooh, are these more of the Coralie Bickford-Smith editions? She did an amazing job on the first two series.