I really loved Cat's Eye, FTR. I didn't get into MadAdam at all. But I still liked After the Flood for some weird reason.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Kat - May 17, 2014 6:47:25 pm PDT #22400 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t - May 17, 2014 7:57:34 pm PDT #22401 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My mother was just telling me she was trying to read something by Atwood but she was going to give up on it. She couldn't remember the title, so I'm not sure how it lines up with the various opinions that have surfaced here. She did know it wasn't Handmaid's Tale and she's willing to give that one a shot, maybe.
Pix - May 18, 2014 6:58:16 am PDT #22402 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Cat's Eye is one of my favorites. Moved me profoundly because it hit so close to home. I read it in high school. (Not FOR high school--my teachers were not that cool. But during high school.)
EpicTangent - May 19, 2014 9:01:59 am PDT #22403 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
From this weekend's ebook bargains, Seanan McGuire's Indexing (read it, loved it), on special for $2.
(Good until 5/31)
eta pesky apostrophe that I noticed I'd missed right as I hit post.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2014 10:06:06 am PDT #22404 of 28344
brillig
One of Seanan's is on Bookbub as well
EpicTangent - May 19, 2014 10:11:52 am PDT #22405 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
That's where I got this one from (invaluable resource, that Bookbub).
hippocampus - May 23, 2014 2:16:30 am PDT #22406 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Jo Walton reading from My Real Children last night. Was excellent. A lot of discussion about the research she did into memory care and Alzheimer's to write the book. Along with particle theory. And the Cuban missile crisis.
Connie Neil - May 24, 2014 6:28:57 pm PDT #22407 of 28344
brillig
I picked up I No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (no, I've never read it, there are a lot of books in the world) and I'm wondering if it's an accurate portrayal of Botswana? I'm fascinated by the language usage, Motswana for an individual (maybe man) of the country, Batswana for a group of people, Tswana apparently for the tribe(?) that occupies the land. I know so little of Africa.
Jesse - May 25, 2014 3:14:23 am PDT #22408 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The grammar is similar in Lesotho -- that's the country, the people are Basotho, the language is Sesotho. I have no idea how accurate the portrayal of Botswana is.
flea - May 25, 2014 4:53:28 am PDT #22409 of 28344
information libertarian
McCall Smith was born and raised (through high school) in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and lived in Botswana from 1981-1984 (helping found the University of Botswana). While I think a black African would write a very different book (and many have, obviously), I think the basic cultural stuff can be taken as pretty accurate.