'Objects In Space'
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."
Isn't The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion supposed to be very good?
We read it for book club in 2010, the year we did memoirs and also the year my husband had cancer. I read the first chapter, started sobbing uncontrollably and haven't been able to read any more of it.
I hear that it's very good though!
I haven't read it yet, but Joyce Carol Oates's A Widow's Story looks very good.
I'm now picturing P-C running off and rating The Book Thief on Goodreads. (I think we've created an addict!)
BOOKS.
Oh, wow. A first edition signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird on Antiques Roadshow.
Even the list of sad books is depressing.
the language of sand was really wonderful - well written the main character is a lexicographer. A lexicographer - due to a major even t goes to live in a lighthouse on an island. Words are important, there are ghost stories along with the ghost of the past - and the small town - and just well written
actually worth repeating - DH liked it a lot too. and it is real with out feeling typical .
So, I have an assignment for class. I must choose and read a book (fiction or non-fiction) related to grief and bereavement.
Hood by Emma Donoghue
James Joyce's work is now in the public domain.
2011 was the 70th anniversary year of his death. He passed out of copyright in the new year.