I have three books on my night table right now. One is None of the Above by my friend (and my dad's urologist!) Ilene. The others are The Girl on the Train, which is supposed to be this year's Gone Girl, I guess (it's already really compelling), and Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, by Beth Kephart, who's also a local here. Oh, and I picked up Anne Lamott's Travelling Mercies at the used bookstore on the way home from work the other night. It's such a dangerous place for a used bookstore to be, if you're me.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
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 - Apr 19, 2015 5:53:23 pm PDT #23234 of 28333
Because books.
Pix - Apr 19, 2015 6:30:53 pm PDT #23235 of 28333
The status is NOT quo.
I probably read about ten books a month when I'm teaching. More during vacation. I read before bed every night, which is extremely dangerous when I'm reading an especially good book.
megan walker - Apr 19, 2015 6:51:26 pm PDT #23236 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I read "The Song of Achilles" yesterday.
Loved Song of Achilles and picked it as one of my Top Ten reads of the last five years. It well deserved the Orange Prize.
meara - Apr 19, 2015 8:47:58 pm PDT #23237 of 28333
Ooh, I have None of the Above on my kindle waiting. I still haven't read Gone Girl...sometimes i enjoy thrillers and sometimes I just want romances or young adult novels with low stakes (not to say all of them have low stakes. But dystopias aside, most are not life-and-death)
sj - Apr 20, 2015 2:22:15 am PDT #23238 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Mom just left me her copy of The Girl on the Train. My bedtime reading is non-existent at the moment because I keep falling asleep.
Amy - Apr 20, 2015 2:38:57 am PDT #23239 of 28333
Because books.
My mom gave me her copy, too! And I'm the same with bedtime reading right now.
Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:29:49 am PDT #23240 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
So do y'all shelve Young Adult books together or by category? I've been putting them with children's books, but the children's book shelves are overloaded, and books like Code Name Verity seem more comfortable with the historical fiction. But then there are Madeleine L'Engle's books, which are all interlinked, though some are SF, some are non-SF young adult and some are adult.
I'm so confused. Also, I barely have the spoons to do the stuff I have to do, and suddenly rearranging the bookshelves seems like a fine idea. What are you thinking, brain?
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2015 11:47:03 am PDT #23241 of 28333
brillig
All fiction by author, if I have the room. Non-fiction by category.
Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:50:36 am PDT #23242 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It would be easier if I had a long run of identical bookshelves, like a library. What I have is different bookshelves with different shelf heights.
Sue - Apr 20, 2015 12:04:04 pm PDT #23243 of 28333
hip deep in pie
Uh, I shelve by colour.