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).
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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 28374
Pix - Jan 21, 2011 10:19:32 pm PST #13699 of 28374
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 28374
"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 28374
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 28374
"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 28374
"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 28374
"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 28374
Because books.
Oooh, my paperback copy of Dracula is falling apart ...
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2011 7:57:55 am PST #13706 of 28374
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 28374
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.