'Hell Bound'
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."
I just read the "Mark Reads" thing on Hunger Games, and I also finished the first book myself.
I think I may be the exact opposite of Mark in every way. First, I knew the basic plot before reading, and can't imagine it any other way. Second, I am all about the romance-- poor Peeta! I know next to nothing about the next 2 books, however.
Dickens Walk podcast from the Guardian.
Be sure to download the cool map from the illustrator Baudade too.
I am reading The Serpent Sea, the second of Martha Wells' tales of the Raksura (the first is The Cloud Roads). It's set in a fabulously fantastic world, with floating islands and a multiplicity of sapient races, all of which have widely varying biologies and social structures. And it's about identity and family: both the ones you're born with and the ones you make. It has adventures and mysteries, sex and fighting, beauty and horror.
SGA Fans please note: if you have a fondness for the competent loner who doesn't know he needs a family, and isn't quite sure what to do with it when he gets one; or, by contrast, the researcher and theorist who is forced to become a soldier through no choice of his own; or the woman leading her people through strength, force of personality, and a bit of guile--well, I suspect you might like these novels a great deal.
I'm just saying.
You can find links to the books on her site--and as of last week, there was a promo sale ongoing, with Cloud Roads free and Baen's ebook of The Serpent Sea going for $6.
Found on Tumblr, posted by a YA author:
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Kindle deal of the day:
3 books by Dava Sobel @ excellent prices - Longitude for 99 cents, A More Perfect Heaven for $1.99 and Galileo's Daughter for 99 cents.
Link.
So I am 20 pages into To the Lighthouse and, man, I don't know if I can make it through this whole book. I'm so fucking lost. I know this book is in English, but words are going right in my head and out the other without comprehension occurring in the middle. I have read Faulkner! WHY CAN'T I DO THIS.
...or the woman leading her people through strength, force of personality, and a bit of guile
I love Martha Wells. And characters with "a bit of guile" are one of her specialties. Or a lot of guile.
WHY CAN'T I DO THIS.
Because the minutiae of life are not very interesting?
t Not a Virginia Woolf fan
I guess this is why Pix suggested getting the annotated edition?
Is there a Classics comic book version?