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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 don't even remember the sex in Beloved. However, there are plenty of very disturbing images in it that will be seared in my brain forever.
Me, too. For some reason the scar on the mans back that was in the shape of a tree (from the whippings) has stuck with me. And other things more disturbing to mention. I read it close to 20 years ago, and just once.
I haven't read her last 3 books, but I've read everything else, and yes, she doesn't hesitate to write about brutality. But, IMO, it's never gratuitous; it's based on emotion, not "Ooh, I need something shocking."
The scar is on Sethe's back; it's her tree. The man, from Sweet Home, is the first person who has loved it and kissed it, and allowed her to cry about it.
I haven't read her last 3 books, but I've read everything else, and yes, she doesn't hesitate to write about brutality. But, IMO, it's never gratuitous; it's based on emotion, not "Ooh, I need something shocking."
Absolutely, and it's very believable violence for the stories she tells. I just recently purchased her latest book, but I haven't felt like reading something that heavy yet. Besides Beloved I have read The Bluest Eyes and Song of Solomon. I think that's it; although I have a couple others on my shelf that I will read eventually.
This is pretty funny--a webpage set up to "help" students write papers about LoTR: [link]
Probably it was more effective before the movies came out...
University of Regina is going to have a Game of Thrones course.
What with being out of town and such, I hadn't gotten a copy of Blackout. Went by the bookstore to pick one up and it wasn't out - not on display with the new books, not on the shelf with the others. I asked a nice bookstore employee who checked and said it should be out with the best sellers (yay!) but on checking, they'd all been sold. So he went "downstairs" and pulled out a bunch to put out on the shelf. With the best sellers.
Woo! Come back to chat about it when you are done! I will be slowly tapping out a review in the next days -- hopefully I can get it done before surgery. (I asked for a local, but it has to be a general, dammit.)
For Parasol Protectorate fans - seemingly there is (or will soon be) a manga version of Soulless.
Paul Krugman: became an economist because of science fiction.