What to dive into next?
May I suggest Karen Memory? (Which reminds me, juliana, I need to give you the ARC! Tor sent me a copy, so you can just have the ARC to read and treasure.)
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2015 4:13:04 pm PST #23043 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Mar 01, 2015 4:29:17 pm PST #23044 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
I loved Nick Hornby's latest, Funny Girl.It's like if his other novels had a love child with "Mad Men" and the "Dick Van Dyke Show"
hippocampus - Mar 02, 2015 2:23:22 am PST #23045 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
Seconding PCs Karen Memory rec. love this book. There's no (6ft tall master spy) reason for me to be biased. Nope.
meara - Mar 02, 2015 6:37:41 am PST #23046 of 28342
Biased indeed--I've met you! I know you're a six foot tall master spy!!
juliana - Mar 02, 2015 4:01:26 pm PST #23047 of 28342
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
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.
I'm reading the Louise & Alymer Maude translation [link] - free for Amazon Kindle, so the price was right. The links to the French translations don't work in my version, but my French is enough to understand what's being said. More or less.
(Which reminds me, juliana, I need to give you the ARC! Tor sent me a copy, so you can just have the ARC to read and treasure.)
Sweet!
My mother gave me The Story of Edward Sawtelle, which I should read, but I'm not really in the mood for Hamlet retold. Richard III retold, sure.
amych - Mar 12, 2015 6:14:57 am PDT #23048 of 28342
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Just saw on his official FB page that Terry Pratchett has died. I feel like this day calls for a long wallow in a big pile of Discworld rather than, say, any kind of useful work.
Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2015 6:18:22 am PDT #23049 of 28342
brillig
Did he take his own way out, or was it something else?
Vale, Sir Terry.
Connie Neil - Mar 12, 2015 6:23:40 am PDT #23050 of 28342
brillig
Moist Von Lipwick would be the perfect successor to Vetinari.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2015 6:28:21 am PDT #23051 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, man. I've only read Good Omens, and always meant to jump into the Discworld books.
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2015 7:19:57 am PDT #23052 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
STEPH.
You have so much wonderfulness ahead of you. My first was Lords and Ladies, but there are plenty of good entry points.
I'm still numb over here, trying to get to work. I just got a four-month rejection and it barely did anything to me since I'm already down in a hole.