Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
She's been doing it forever? There are dozens of teen book bloggers who request ARCs and get them, and most of them aren't really professional. All I know is we never used her reviews for any of the romances of ours she reviewed.
This is one of the reason publishers have gone to NetGalley for review purposes. It's cheaper, and it means fewer physical copies of the books are floating around.
Didn't need to say it twice.
Our local independent bookseller has been donating boxes and boxes of ARCs to the kids' school library. We love them! I got 2 grocery bags full of 8-12 year old books this morning.
Duma Key is destroying me. Thanks for telling me to stick with it! It really did improve as it went along, and this last third is the King I was expecting and hoping for, but I don't know if it would be this effective if I hadn't spent so much time getting to know and like these characters.
Really sad about Ilsa. Even though I knew it was coming, I thought that maybe somehow there would be a twist and he'd save her. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!" I yelled when it was finally true.
I just read The Buddha in the Attic, which is all kinds of wonderful. [link] It's a poetic little gem of a book about Japanese brides coming to America at the trun of the century. It's told in first person plural ("we"), which seems like it would become gimmicky, but it doesn't. I REALLY loved this book.
I just finished the Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobb) and am now in the middle of rereading Cloud Atlas. I'd meant to reread it before seeing the movie, but since the screening was last night I guess that plan's off.
I have a couple of ARC cookbooks from my MiL, which are great except the page numbers aren't final so there are several recipes with notes like "Serve with spicy tomato jam (page 0000)"
I've been meaning to read Cloud Atlas. I doubt I'll see the movie anytime soon, but it's still a pretty good excuse...
P-C, I'm glad you stuck with it! I re-read it again last week and I was wondering if you'd stayed with it.
My 90 year Mom read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" for a Halloween event. If you are looking for some Poe to read for Halloween that is a little less widely shared than "The Raven", I highly recommend. Some people say it is hard to read, but if you avoid the 20th and 21st century tendency of reading poetry as prose, and deliver it rapid fire and embrace the rhythm and syncopation and alliteration it is actually fairly straightforward. One of the young people listening said it was 19th century rap, and really she had a point. It is almost a week yet to Halloween, and if anyone knows a Goth rapper who would be interested maybe they could make a youtube of themselves reading "The Bells" rap style. I think I will xpost to music.
Tintinnabulation is one of my favorite words, Typo.