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.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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."
Ginger - Jan 22, 2011 3:40:29 am PST #13700 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
erin_obscure - Jan 22, 2011 8:50:51 am PST #13701 of 28289
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 28289
"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 28289
"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 28289
"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 28289
Because books.
Oooh, my paperback copy of Dracula is falling apart ...
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2011 7:57:55 am PST #13706 of 28289
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 28289
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.
megan walker - Jan 23, 2011 8:05:39 am PST #13708 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ooh, are these more of the Coralie Bickford-Smith editions?
Yes. But they seem to be coming out piecemeal, not in sets of 10 (9 in the US) like the first two.
erin_obscure - Jan 23, 2011 8:10:14 am PST #13709 of 28289
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I picked up _Birdsong_ by Sebastian Faulks after seeing it on a recommended list and reading lots of reviews about how stirring and well written it is....30 pages in it is SO BORING. Like, _Clarissa_ boring. Descriptions of scenery. Descriptions of people, nothing happening. Maybe i've been reading too much YA recently and started expecting books to start with a little plot to grab my attention....
Can someone reassure me that it will pick up soon? So far it's totally bumming my workouts (in that i'm not so engrossed in my book that i want to keep going).