Wash ,'War Stories'
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 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:
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.
All of the Saga comics
Yeah, I love these too!
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.
I had the same experience with W&P. I...didn't finish. I intend to try again someday.
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.
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.
My blog is practically one extended chronicle of my attempts to read War and Peace.
juliana, which translation are you reading?
I'd be happy to try taking War and Peace on again if people are interested in forming some sort of support group for it.
Also, there is discussion and examples of the various translations in the posts and comments here and here.
Scott Westerfeld's new novel is pretty cool so far. It's two separate storylines: (a) the story of a YA novelist who sells a paranormal romance at 18 and instead of going to college, goes to NYC for a year to write the sequel; and (b) the story that makes up the novel she sold.
It's told in alternating chapters and while I'm not that into paranormal romance, it is Scott Westerfeld so I'm pretty sure it's going to get weird and complicated at some point.
(And yay for the library ebook lending program!)
Did anyone else hear the interview with Kazuo Ishigiro yesterday? The Chronicle had a review of his new novel, which looks like a straight-up fantasy from the description (although the reviewer uses the T-word and says it transcends the genre).