Three Men in a Boat is a quick read and pretty amusing. I do wonder how someone ends up being named Jerome K Jerome. That’s slightly more boggling than William Carlos Williams, even.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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 - Mar 04, 2023 9:45:55 pm PST #27582 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DavidS - Mar 04, 2023 10:18:08 pm PST #27583 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Three Men in a Boat is a quick read and pretty amusing. I do wonder how someone ends up being named Jerome K Jerome. That’s slightly more boggling than William Carlos Williams, even.
Catch-22 features a character named Major Major Major Major and only the first one is his military rank.
-t - Mar 05, 2023 7:15:07 am PST #27584 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It also mentions how that happened!
Toddson - Mar 06, 2023 12:18:49 pm PST #27585 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Don't know if this qualifies as "literary," but there's a book on sale called Girly Drinks. It's about women and booze - making it, drinking it, etc.
Calli - Mar 07, 2023 8:01:27 am PST #27586 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, KJ Charles' latest, on my iPad, but I have to work all day. This is wrong, and I would like to lodge a complaint.
-t - Mar 07, 2023 8:46:44 am PST #27587 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Work getting in the way of reading is the worst. Bookblockers.
Toddson - Mar 07, 2023 10:26:48 am PST #27588 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, I checked my e-books earlier and there it was! still have to work ... have a zoom call at 2:00 and will have to spend most of tomorrow in a staff meeting.
Cashmere - Mar 11, 2023 11:26:08 am PST #27589 of 28333
Now tagless for your comfort.
I have The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, KJ Charles' latest, on my iPad, but I have to work all day. This is wrong, and I would like to lodge a complaint.
I hope you've been enjoying it. She got a new narrator for the audiobook and it's fantastic!
Calli - Mar 11, 2023 4:12:38 pm PST #27590 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I am enjoying it! I’m reading the ebook. For some reason, audio books just don’t do it for me. But I’m glad you’re enjoying the new narrator.
Beverly - Mar 12, 2023 12:33:19 am PST #27591 of 28333
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm gifting myself with the two books in Hoffman's Practical Magic series I don't have. I noticed the black and gold theme all the books seem to have, and I knew my copy of PM wasn't black and gold. So I got it out, and it's blue and lavender with a sort of tree design on the dust jacket. I had googled dust jackets for the book and not seen any that looked like mine. Puzzle solved: in the corner of the dj flap is a price marked in pounds. So, a British import. It's still in like-new condition, having been read twice and then shelved. The dj slipped off the back, and in putting it back I noticed inside the back cover, where I'd never noticed it was a fancy plastic bookmark full of Lindesfarne-esque Celtic designs. It was attached with two little dots of glue that was easily scraped off bookmark and page. So...present from the cosmos, I guess. Pretty!