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.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Strix - Oct 24, 2012 8:45:29 pm PDT #20010 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2012 2:11:07 pm PDT #20011 of 28370
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 28370
not your mom's socks.
Tintinnabulation is one of my favorite words, Typo.
sumi - Oct 26, 2012 7:15:31 am PDT #20013 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is 50 years old.
Toddson - Oct 29, 2012 2:55:55 pm PDT #20014 of 28370
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 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
drat ... double post.
sj - Oct 29, 2012 5:21:51 pm PDT #20016 of 28370
"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?
Anne W. - Oct 29, 2012 5:23:47 pm PDT #20017 of 28370
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm about halfway through SWtWC. I'll be reading a bit more tonight.
sj - Oct 29, 2012 5:27:33 pm PDT #20018 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Maybe I'll go back to Night Circus. I was reading it before the move, and then I misplaced it and found it when I was looking for something else recently.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2012 5:32:39 pm PDT #20019 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm reading Libba Bray's new novel, The Diviners. It's creepy and apt for this time of year.