Frank, based on the incredibly numerous past occasions on which your tastes have intersected with both Hec's and mine, I think you might cautiously attempt to revisit Annie Dillard, as we both love the hell out of her (though I never attempted her in high school and have no idea what I'd have made of her if I had).
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
JZ - May 18, 2012 12:03:22 am PDT #18829 of 28333
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
erikaj - May 18, 2012 5:08:41 am PDT #18830 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
I want to like her. And if I read a little in a magazine, I do. But all that nature kind of makes me impatient.
sj - May 18, 2012 5:15:16 am PDT #18831 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ginger - May 18, 2012 6:35:00 am PDT #18832 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I loved Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and it has lines that still come to me, such as when she finds herself sniffling and thinks, "I had forgotten the law of the Wild, which is 'Carry Kleenex.'"
She's also the author of my favorite quote:
I don’t do housework. Life’s too short and I’m too much of a Puritan. If you want to take a year to write a book, you have to take that year, or the year will take you by the hair and pull you toward the grave. Let the grass die. I let almost all my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
flea - May 18, 2012 7:03:35 am PDT #18833 of 28333
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I once babysat for Annie Dillard's daughter (when I was about 16 and the daughter (Rosie) was 5, and she was married to someone at Wesleyan, I think), and I can attest that she lived that housekeeping philosophy. Also, her daughter would not to go bed and tried to escape out the window.
Liese S. - May 18, 2012 5:31:00 pm PDT #18834 of 28333
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I finished 1Q84, which was...puzzling. Most of it was unsettling, and there's some bits where it's hard to separate out the Japanese author's intent vs. the translation.
But anyway, the important bit is that yay, now I can start my Night Circus reread.
smonster - May 19, 2012 6:59:09 pm PDT #18835 of 28333
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
These are fun - silly photos of "serious" writers (quotes mine) - [link]
Burrell - May 19, 2012 8:09:56 pm PDT #18836 of 28333
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Edward Gorey! Now I love him all the more.
DavidS - May 19, 2012 8:18:36 pm PDT #18837 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Edward Gorey! Now I love him all the more.
Heh. He used to go to the New York City Ballet (he saw every performance for over 20 years) wearing a raccoon coat, sneakers without socks, earrings and rings on all his fingers. In the early sixties.
He was (of course) also a huge Buffy fan.
Typo Boy - May 19, 2012 8:22:25 pm PDT #18838 of 28333
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Early 60s were, as far as I know, the only time raccoon coats were a major men's fashion item.