Was it this one?
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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."
Yes! Thank you!
I can't wait to get Glass Heart. But I have to wait until this weekend.
I am also part way through Dog Stars. HOLY SHIT! It's good.
I did a massive amount of reading this week.I hope I can maintain a shred of that momentum. Finished Development Hell, Mindy Kaling's book, and The Bluest Eye. And dug properly into guards! Guards! My biggest disappointment is with Mindy. I wanted to find a new imaginary best girl friend ever out of this one. She is too stiff for me to lose my self in her words. Her naughtiness is not mine. And her judginess does not align with my judge and jury in the least.
Pfft. I still hope for the best for her show.
I stopped following her twitter feed because her rhythms were odd.
Have you guys listened to her WTF Podcast with Marc Maron? She's an interesting person.
People! Has anyone else read Daniel O'Malley's book The Rook? I'm not even halfway through and loving it. Such a great read!
What did you think of The Bluest Eye, ita ! It was Morrison's first novel, and I loved teaching it. Spurred SUCH great conversations, papers and projects in my students. But I adore Beloved more and read it once a year. The LANGUAGE! So wonderful! It's such a dense, gripping, HARD book.
She's a little weird, but I liked her book(So girly, though, it's not like I related to most of it. Except being a comedy geek who hung out with her parents in high school.That was more like me than what most people say about high school. )Including, I suppose, Joss' "high school hell' thing.) The Bluest Eye is still the Toni Morrison book I like best. It's so much more simple and unvarnished than the things she's written since.
There were times, Strix, where I felt an English teacher reading over my shoulder, and wanting me to compare and contrast uses of imagery, etc.
Sometimes I get mad at her because I don't think she needs to be that confusing, and she bounces around viewpoints from chapter to chapter here like nobody's business. I really like the story. I even like *most* of the ways she chose tot ell it. But a couple of them are to twee for me, and get in the way of the emotion and the social commentary.