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.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2012 2:38:06 pm PDT #20007 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jessica - Oct 24, 2012 2:48:34 pm PDT #20008 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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)"
-t - Oct 24, 2012 2:52:27 pm PDT #20009 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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...
Strix - Oct 24, 2012 8:45:29 pm PDT #20010 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2012 2:11:07 pm PDT #20011 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
hippocampus - Oct 26, 2012 5:12:31 am PDT #20012 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Tintinnabulation is one of my favorite words, Typo.
sumi - Oct 26, 2012 7:15:31 am PDT #20013 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is 50 years old.
Toddson - Oct 29, 2012 2:55:55 pm PDT #20014 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Catching up after much too long ...
I've loved Josephine Tey's books for a long time. She created some interesting situations and characters. I think my favorite was "To Love And Be Wise".
In regard to Ray Bradbury, one of the stories in "The Toynbee Convector" is set in San Francisco, if I remember correctly. "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair" ... all I remember clearly is a conversation taking place on one of those really long staircases.
I've read some Shirley Jackson, but it was a long time ago. The original "The Haunting" was seriously scary. The remake ... really kind of a waste of talent. It always irks me when someone takes somethng and remakes it so that it gets changed all out of any resemblence to the original. And some of the changes seem to be for no purpose other than to be different. huh ... we're having problems with the publishers of our magazine doing that exact thing - rewriting stuff to put their "stamp" on it and inserting incorrect information in the process.
Toddson - Oct 29, 2012 2:55:58 pm PDT #20015 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
drat ... double post.
sj - Oct 29, 2012 5:21:51 pm PDT #20016 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I finished Something Wicked This Way Comes while the electricity was out. I really enjoyed it. Although, I think I liked the opening few chapters the best; they were so atmospheric. Now what to read next?