Anya ,'Potential'
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."
Outline a few for me? That are better than her complaints.
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London! And now I'm too exhausted from 12 hours of travel to think straight. But I'll try to think of something coherent to say when I've had some sleep.
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London!
Oh, no - not that excuse again!
Btw, we got your package for Matilda today. Thanks! Good timing.
Yay! I hope she likes the accidental birthday present.
I am more than halfway through Shadow and Bone from a marathon gym session and waiting at the hospital. Anyone read it? It's quite wonderful so far.
I've read it. I enjoyed it a lot. How are you doing, Kat?
I just read it this last weekend. I liked it well enough, without loving it. I thought Alina was pretty naive (although justifiably, for the most part), rather expected another twist that we didn't get, and enjoyed the magic structure and the visuals of the Shadow Fold.
I am surprised to hear it got optioned for a movie, but then again it has that whole Potterish magic-training thing going.
I'm doing okay. A little sleepy, but nothing awful. Percocet is really handy for nighttime dealing with the battered feeling. I AM going into work though.
In the past two days I've read Imaginary Girls, Glass Heart and Shadow and Bone. It's been tons of fun to do entertaining reading. Before that it was The Dog Stars which was excellent. Like I could teach it in AP excellent. Next on my list are Telegraph Hill and finishing the new Junot Diaz book.
I like Junot Diaz in theory better than reality and I like the new one, sort of, more than Oscar Wao. Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
Also on the list, The Barbaria Nurseries by Hector Tobar which is mostly excellent from the snippets I read.
Being in slight pain or fear of pain + waiting at appointments is excellent for my reading.
Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
OMG thank you.
I liked it, but I get why you might feel that way.While everyone deserves love, and that unrequited thing sucks(just ask the mayor) that shouldn't imply that Oscar is entitled to be beloved by the object of his desire...it was very different from everything I read at the time I read it and I liked its use of language(languages)?