Amy, I actually loved the protagonist in Dark Places the best. I loved how completely and unapologetically fucked up she was.
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'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."
sj - Aug 18, 2013 3:59:23 pm PDT #21266 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 4:20:50 am PDT #21267 of 28406
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 28406
"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 28406
Woe to the fucking wicked.
t looks at Amazon
Interesting.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 9:55:04 am PDT #21270 of 28406
"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 28406
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.
meara - Aug 19, 2013 10:47:11 am PDT #21272 of 28406
One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:09:25 am PDT #21273 of 28406
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2013 5:18:11 am PDT #21274 of 28406
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:28:22 am PDT #21275 of 28406
Always Anti-fascist!
(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)