SJ, right??!
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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."
javachik - Aug 18, 2013 3:46:31 pm PDT #21262 of 28379
Our wings are not tired.
Amy - Aug 18, 2013 3:54:19 pm PDT #21263 of 28379
Because books.
I got Dark Places and I had trouble getting into it -- the protagonist was unlikeable in a way Nick wasn't, for me. I'll pick it up again later, though.
sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:57:23 pm PDT #21264 of 28379
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Truly, I went into a little bit of book withdrawal after I was done with all of them.
javachik - Aug 18, 2013 3:58:12 pm PDT #21265 of 28379
Our wings are not tired.
I found the protoganist in Dark Places to, in the end, be the most likable protagonist out of Flynn's 3 books (she's the only one who's on a path to getting somewhere in life IMO), that said I wouldn't want to have a cup of coffee with anyone in any of her books! Yikes.
sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:59:23 pm PDT #21266 of 28379
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy, I actually loved the protagonist in Dark Places the best. I loved how completely and unapologetically fucked up she was.
DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 4:20:50 am PDT #21267 of 28379
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It's the start of a semester, and I have to read a book for class. Anyone have suggestions for good books that deal with "health and aging"? Can be fiction or non-fiction, but I'm not sure how far we can get into supernatural metaphor before I lose my instructor.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 7:07:25 am PDT #21268 of 28379
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great Grandmother
DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 9:29:45 am PDT #21269 of 28379
Woe to the fucking wicked.
t looks at Amazon
Interesting.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 9:55:04 am PDT #21270 of 28379
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Her Crosswicks journals are beautifully written, and The Summer of the Great Grandmother is a thoughtful look at aging and dealing with an independent relative who is becoming dependent. Her novel A Severed Wasp also deals with aging.
Another possibility would be M.F.K. Fisher's collection Sister Age. >[link]
Sophia Brooks - Aug 19, 2013 10:41:08 am PDT #21271 of 28379
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.