'The Train Job'
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."
Also, EVERYONE should read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I'd love to teach this book.
I got it signed by him (well, a galley) at BEA, and he was so charming, so completely what you'd expect for the author of that book. I've only skimmed so far, because I was too busy to read it at the time, but what I read I loved. My mom has it now. And the cover is spectacular.
It's a wonderful book. I love the narrator. I also love how this is sort of a Great Gatsby, a decade later. Nice to read a Great Depression book that isn't.
I cannot believe he's an investment banker!
Anyone want a bunch of coverless Piers Anthony paperbacks? We're clearing out my old room at my folks' house.
Sherwood Smith's Once a Princess for Kindle is free today.
Damn, I have that one already. I would like the sequel, though...
But do you have it on Kindle?
No, that's true.
a meteorologist is fact-checking Laura Ingalls Wilder
I went to the first meeting of my fall library class last night--Reference in the Humanities. For our final project, we have to put together a report on a topic that covers multiple disciplines in what we're researching this semester (music, dance, religion/philosphy, art, TV, movies, literature, architecture), and seeing this post earlier in the day made me think about doing my final on Laura Ingalls Wilder. I can utilize the lit and TV aspects, throwing in the houses that are preserved or recreated and the museums they contain, and also use the CDs I have of the music from the books, which are really excellent recordings, btw. The teacher approved it when I mentioned it to him after class after I explained all the different aspects I can present.
So, thanks Jessica for reminding me of LIW!!
It may have been linked here before, but I am thoroughly enjoying Book-a-Minute Classics.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote: Chivalry demands I destroy that evil thing.
Sancho Panza: No, master. It is something ordinary and harmless.
Don Quixote: (falls down).
THE END
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ancient Mariner: I am creepy and old. Listen to me.
Wedding Guest: I'm late, but I'll listen.
Ancient Mariner: I killed an albatross. Then everyone died.
THE END