Piranesi appears to be on sale is anyone is curious about it
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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."
-t - Sep 08, 2021 8:07:19 am PDT #27000 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
meara - Sep 08, 2021 9:05:03 am PDT #27001 of 28078
I just got it from the library and was very confused, tbh. Interesting but confusing.
-t - Sep 08, 2021 10:16:41 am PDT #27002 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's got a very strong element of "WTF is going on?", for sure
Toddson - Sep 08, 2021 10:49:29 am PDT #27003 of 28078
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There's too much WTF in my real life; I'd prefer not to deal with it in literature.
-t - Sep 08, 2021 11:57:30 am PDT #27004 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Perhaps not the best word choice. There's a lot of mystery, which I quite like.
Laura - Sep 08, 2021 1:48:54 pm PDT #27005 of 28078
Our wings are not tired.
There is a great deal of WTF, but presented in a very intriguing and compelling way.
aurelia - Sep 12, 2021 8:57:44 am PDT #27006 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I could use book recommendations for my grandmother's 95th birthday. The last time I got Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal.
Kate P. - Sep 12, 2021 9:09:06 am PDT #27007 of 28078
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So, recent biographies or history books? Just American history, or are there other eras/places she's interested in?
aurelia - Sep 12, 2021 9:42:52 am PDT #27008 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Biographies, history, historical fiction... Probably best to stick with American. I think she's started reading romances again but I have no idea what she's already read in that genre.
bennett - Sep 12, 2021 10:09:05 am PDT #27009 of 28078
If she's at all interested in the history of science/geography, I liked Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa" and his "A Crack in the Edge of the World" (on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake). He's also got "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" which my mom loved.
Also for American history, pretty much anything by David McCullough.