Totally agreed, Sox! So many possibilities!
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
I bought Valour and Vanity, and then I realized I hadn't gotten book three yet. So now I have two of them to read. This is the exact opposite of a problem.
Similarly, I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Golem and the Jinni and everything is going haywire but I do understaaaaaaaaand.
I've seen that in the bookstore and it looked interesting.
It's so good! It's not what I expected. It's a fascinating portrayal of both main characters, but it's also got a host of supporting characters whose lives intersect, which I love.
My wife is teaching an honors sophomore - level world lit course next year. The course is heavy on existentialism - Kafka, Sartre, waiting for Godot, other darkish things. She is trying to find a book to pair with Einstein's Dreams (technically a US writer but set in a foreign country) for summer reading; something not - too - long and not too depressing (just out of kindness) but with some nature-of-god-time-.and - the - universe kind of themes. Ideally a foreign author but a foreign setting or fish out of water themes might make it qualify. Problems: no or extremely minimal undescribed sex and little to no cursing because we are in a private school inTN and it sucks sometimes. So all Marquez is out. Sadly. Also junot diaz. Ideas?
Gris, maybe The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. It's a series of essays about forgiveness by Wiesenthal, as well as Dalai Lama etc. It is episodic in the same way the Einstein's Dreams is because it's essays, but it's very accessible, which is perfect for summer reading where there is no teacher to teach it. Sort of "heavy" writing but very thought-provoking.
I highly, highly recommend The Golem and the Jinni.
I'm reading it right now, Sunil. Just getting started.
That looks awesome.
I'm reading it right now, Sunil. Just getting started.
You're in for a treat.
That looks awesome.
IT IS! Between this and The Night Circus, damn, I'm reading some good stuff lately.
For people who use Goodreads, how do you deal with partially read books. I don't finish a lot of books, especially non fiction, I just read the parts that interest me. But I like to see how many books I read in a year. I feel like I should count them somehow- there are around 6 so far this year. But I feel like I am lying if I put them in read