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.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In 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."
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.
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.
Jesse - Sep 13, 2021 6:56:12 pm PDT #27013 of 28078
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Who's read Charlie Jane's Victories Greater Than Death?
Me! I liked it, although I bet I'll like it more as a show. Although I don't know how they are going to handle some of the characters, just visually.
DavidS - Sep 13, 2021 7:27:52 pm PDT #27014 of 28078
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Excellent and immediate feedback.
How about Cat Valente's Space Opera? Anybody?
DebetEsse - Sep 13, 2021 11:06:25 pm PDT #27015 of 28078
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It's literally next on my reading list after my Ministry for the Future loan expires.