Also, "The Agony and the Ecstasy" is apparently a book as well. I did not know this.
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
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."
Dana - Oct 10, 2011 7:35:09 pm PDT #16588 of 28288
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
-t - Oct 10, 2011 7:35:18 pm PDT #16589 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read it and liked it. Eta: Girl With a Pearl Earring, that is.
Blue Beard by Vonnegut springs to mind.
meara - Oct 10, 2011 7:40:31 pm PDT #16590 of 28288
DavidS - Oct 10, 2011 7:48:14 pm PDT #16591 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No art theme ideas?
The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary (movie version starred Alec Guiness)
The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
Synopsis: Henry Breasley is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by a brash young artist commissioned to write a biographical study of the great man. Breasley shares his home with two young English girls, both former art students, Diana and Anne. In this strange ménage, David is left in no doubt about his host's views on modern abstract art. However, he is puzzled by the old man's relationship with the girls, especially when he himself is attracted to Diana.
Freud at Work - Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Scumbler - William Wharton (he also wrote Birdy)
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Lust for Life - Irving Stone
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Unknown Masterpiece - Balzac
Leonardo's Swan's - Karen Essex
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham
My Name is Red - Orhan Pahuk
DavidS - Oct 10, 2011 7:50:40 pm PDT #16592 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
An extensive list compiled on a community of painters (starts at post #8)
Consuela - Oct 10, 2011 7:54:05 pm PDT #16593 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For art: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. Which is mostly about the art scene in Paris between 1910 and 1930. Kind of a ridiculous amount of name-dropping in this.
For frontiers: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner. Simply fantastic, and about as important as Turner's essay.
beth b - Oct 10, 2011 8:00:26 pm PDT #16594 of 28288
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I like lust for life.
I read it before I ever saw a Van Gogh -- so I loved his paintings before i saw them ( I read it in high school )
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:02:57 pm PDT #16595 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?
That is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:04:10 pm PDT #16596 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Movie tie-ins are actually great because we have a film critic among us.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:23:41 pm PDT #16597 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Wow, ask and you shall receive!
The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
Hah! I'm reading TFLW this month for our 19th-century England salon ("What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew").
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
We read this for the short-lived Buffista book club, didn't we? I remember thinking I would never have picked it up otherwise, but I really liked it.