So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
Amy - Feb 17, 2012 9:30:51 am PST #17847 of 28261
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Feb 17, 2012 9:41:37 am PST #17848 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am overly fond of the name Chabo the Wolf-Baby.
(I am rather loving A Series of Unfortunate Events at this point. It's been getting better and better!)
Beverly - Feb 17, 2012 9:54:52 am PST #17849 of 28261
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I have never had enough space to be able to arrange my books other than by size--fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, whatever. All this size books will fit in this shelf, smaller ones have to go in those shelves, etc. Luxury would be enough space to organize by subject, and alpha.
On rereading--I find that when I'm craving a reread of a certain book that many times I'm craving the experience. That is, if I read Woman on the Edge of Time the summer we camped at the lake, when the kids were 11 and 12, with late mornings spent reading in the hammock and afternoons spent diving off the boat anchored in our tiny cove. That by rereading, I wanted not only to recapture the emotions and reactions evoked by the book, but the ambient sounds, sunlight through leaf-dapple and the dew burning off as the morning progressed, the scent of woodsmoke and coffee, and the gentle sway of the hammock.
Not all books were read first time in such vivid surroundings, but I do find that rereading conjures up sensory details I noted while reading.
Atropa - Feb 17, 2012 10:34:13 am PST #17850 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health.
I am vindicated! Because wow, I reread a lot.
Ginger - Feb 17, 2012 10:35:17 am PST #17851 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not sure if this is literary or natter, but did anyone read Mitchell Graham's [link] fantasy? Apparently every word he says about himself is a lie, including "and" and "the".
He used his fantasy skills to bilk women out of millions [link]
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2012 10:39:26 am PST #17852 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously, someone has to be a raging idiot in this scenario:
Gross, a former Georgia lawyer who was later disbarred, has a prior conviction in Cobb County for insurance fraud for filing an auto accident claim listing himself and his father as victims. But his father wasn’t in the car. In fact, he wasn’t even alive
And since he's still rich and free, I guess it's not him.
Ginger - Feb 17, 2012 10:41:15 am PST #17853 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There appear to be a number of raging idiots or he was supernaturally persuasive.
hippocampus - Feb 17, 2012 10:42:45 am PST #17854 of 28261
not your mom's socks.
Wow.
Toddson - Feb 17, 2012 11:28:26 am PST #17855 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
This gives me hope of someday, somehow, getting some. Assuming the converse is true ....
Strix - Feb 17, 2012 11:35:07 am PST #17856 of 28261
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health.
Jesus, my insomania and depression should be FULLY cured, by that standard. I re-read like a mofo.