There's too much WTF in my real life; I'd prefer not to deal with it in literature.
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Toddson - Sep 08, 2021 10:49:29 am PDT #27003 of 28078
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-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.
aurelia - Sep 12, 2021 11:50:50 am PDT #27010 of 28078
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Thanks! I'm sticking with hardcovers so I ordered "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester in addition to "The Rose Code" by Kate Quinn and "The Personal Librarian" by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray. That might keep her occupied for a couple weeks. I think my parents have been sharing some McCullogh with her and I don't want to duplicate anything.
DavidS - Sep 13, 2021 6:07:55 pm PDT #27011 of 28078
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Who's read Charlie Jane's Victories Greater Than Death?
Any early opinions on that or her other work?
-t - Sep 13, 2021 6:50:02 pm PDT #27012 of 28078
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like it. The City in the Middle of the Night is my favorite, but I will keep reading the series that VGtD starts and I’m excited about the TV adaptation I just heard about.