Well, now I'm definitely interested. I'll look for it at the library.
I just started Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and it's amazing. No idea why I'm so late to the party, but so glad I'm reading it now.
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Amy - Feb 26, 2015 4:49:01 pm PST #23032 of 28342
Because books.
Kat - Feb 26, 2015 4:55:16 pm PST #23033 of 28342
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I really liked Fun Home. I should re read because I can't remember it at all.
I have been in a state of ecstatic reading which has included:
- Both Jandy Nelson books (the one that one the Prinz was great).
- All of the Saga comics (I'm so late to that party, so don't worry, Amy).
- Lots of JoJo Moyes
- All the Truth In Me which was amazing.
Amy - Feb 26, 2015 4:59:39 pm PST #23034 of 28342
Because books.
Oh, I want to read the Jandy Nelson books, too. And, unrelatedly, Perseopolis, which I saw at the library when I picked up Fun Home. I also took out Wild, because I guess I'm in a memoir mood.
DavidS - Feb 26, 2015 5:01:31 pm PST #23035 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
All of the Saga comics
Yeah, I love these too!
juliana - Mar 01, 2015 10:09:15 am PST #23036 of 28342
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I just finished The Black Count, which was great, and I'm currently trying to slog my way through War and Peace. I say slog, because I'm fairly sure this is a shitty translation. I just don't know of a universally admired one.
DebetEsse - Mar 01, 2015 10:13:21 am PST #23037 of 28342
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I had the same experience with W&P. I...didn't finish. I intend to try again someday.
Susan W. - Mar 01, 2015 10:15:26 am PST #23038 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Same here, and I was reading a widely-acclaimed translation. I think I'd almost need a W&P vacation, where I could spend several hours a day on it for as long as it took. I was trying to read it half an hour each day at lunch, and I just couldn't keep up with all the people and threads.
SuziQ - Mar 01, 2015 10:43:09 am PST #23039 of 28342
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I've been loving my kindle and am so happy to be back reading. I just finished the Divergent series and The Fault in Our Stars (the feels, man). K-Bug and I were at the book store yesterday and I saw the size of Allegiant and Insurgent and they are huge. You definitely lose sense of the size of a book on an e-reader.
What to dive into next? With mention of War and Peace, maybe I should get brave and give that a go.
megan walker - Mar 01, 2015 1:15:27 pm PST #23040 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My blog is practically one extended chronicle of my attempts to read War and Peace.
juliana, which translation are you reading?
megan walker - Mar 01, 2015 1:20:52 pm PST #23041 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist