Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Also, I mean, usually when an author has more time in production, there is more time for the editor to reach the threshold number of hammer-blows to the head to convince the author that the book is 200 pages too long.
I wonder how long Foucault's Pendulum was in production.
Visiting Flannery O'Connor's Georgia - in the Times, so read it quick before it slips behind the archive.
JZ sent that to me today. Very worth reading if you're a fan.
Who can tell me which author wrote (in a poem about a poem) "If you had watched me write it, I would have hit you, POW!" I'm probably not quoting it accurately which might explain why I haven't been able to find it all these years.
Thanks for the style instructions, y'all!
I read "Moon Called" by Patricia Briggs last night, and thought it pretty good. Good enough that I will also read the next one. I like the heroine, Mercy, quite a lot. Good combo of comptence and realism, I think.
That is all. I just hate to see the Lit thread all mute and helpless.
I just hate to see the Lit thread all mute and helpless.
Aw!
I read The Time-Traveler's Wife last month (and loved it!) and am now starting on my program of Attempting to Better Myself by reading classics I missed somewhere along the way. I'm starting with Mrs. Dalloway, which is good but takes a little more concentration that I usually have at 11 p.m., which is when I usually get to read. Next up is something by Henry James, I think. Or possibly Great Expectations.
Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."
If you want to go all Old Skool classic, try "The Odyssey"
I have got to pull out my old book-on-tape (wish I had it on CD, now) of Ian McKellen reading Fagles' translation of The Odyssey.
Ooh, yum, Kathy! I might hit you up for a dub of that next fall; I teach "The Odyssey" to my seniors.
Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."
I'd second this rec. I find her way more entertaining than he is.