Thanks for the rec, P-C, I'll have to look for it. I'm a journal junkie. That and correspondence. It's like eavesdropping, even in fiction.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
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."
Beverly - Apr 22, 2007 2:26:13 pm PDT #2627 of 28176
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
beth b - Apr 23, 2007 8:06:36 pm PDT #2628 of 28176
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Just finished the latest Kim Harrison. She brought me back tothe fold with that ending
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2007 6:12:38 am PDT #2629 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We're having our charity book sale here at work today. As is usual, while we were setting up the books on tables in the cafeteria, people started coming over and looking through them even though we weren't ready to open up yet (no money, no signs with prices, etc.). I did a fast look-through to see if there was anything I'd want, and got Molly Ivins' Shrub, The Alienist, and Time-Travelers Wife, for $4 total! And then, while I was handling the sales for the first few hours, someone came up with Eats Shoots and Leaves, which I totally missed on my cursory lookthrough and I am thoroughly bummed because he got it instead of me. Humph.
Hayden - Apr 24, 2007 8:22:19 am PDT #2630 of 28176
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The Onion's AV Club is firing on all cylinders this week: neither the random rules interview with Berkeley Breathed nor the collection of favorite Vonnegut quotes should be missed.
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2007 9:05:21 am PDT #2631 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dear Book Pimpers:
Have finished Shards of Honor. Stop. Library has Barrayar on hold for me; will pick it up after work. Stop. Was at Half-Price Books at lunchtime; bought To Say Nothing of the Dog. Stop.
I also noticed, when at Half-Price Books and looking for Barrayar, that LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section. This both amuses and troubles me.
flea - Apr 24, 2007 9:13:27 am PDT #2632 of 28176
information libertarian
I'm still troubled when I catch Reading Rainbow and see his actual eyes.
dcp - Apr 24, 2007 9:26:53 am PDT #2633 of 28176
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 4:09:54 pm PDT #2634 of 28176
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 4:47:59 pm PDT #2635 of 28176
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 5:02:23 pm PDT #2636 of 28176
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.