I'm rereading Bone Dance by Emma Bull (for the nth time), and thinking, "this is a book I would love to have written." Argh.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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."
Consuela - Jun 11, 2007 8:01:03 pm PDT #2837 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
hippocampus - Jun 12, 2007 3:12:07 am PDT #2838 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
Augh. I am teh idiot. Housekeeping sits on the shelf next to Evidence of things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins. I got Marilynne Robinson confused in there and we have a literary conundrum. My brain was elsewhere yesterday. Still a very good book! [link]
Consuela - I hear you!
Steph L. - Jun 12, 2007 7:16:16 am PDT #2839 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Fred Pete - Jun 12, 2007 7:40:21 am PDT #2840 of 28176
Ann, that's a ferret.
Many here will no doubt particularly enjoy this installment of the series Teppy just linked to.
Aims - Jun 14, 2007 8:34:13 am PDT #2841 of 28176
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Rowling's book tour. [link]
On Oct. 15, she will read at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles,
GODS DAMN IT.
Kathy A - Jun 14, 2007 8:37:37 am PDT #2842 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
You wouldn't have been able to get in, anyway:
Don't bother rushing for tickets. For three of the readings, Scholastic will pick schools to send children. For the fourth reading, at Carnegie Hall, 1,000 fans will be chosen from a Scholastic sweepstakes, with each winner receiving two passes.
Aims - Jun 14, 2007 8:39:23 am PDT #2843 of 28176
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I could get in. I have a Catholic school girl outfit.
OR OR OR
I have a child! In a school! With Grandma as her teacher.
I could totally get in.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2007 5:15:38 am PDT #2844 of 28176
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Aims - Jun 15, 2007 5:24:45 am PDT #2845 of 28176
Shit's all sorts of different now.
An aside: I wish people would stop looking for a meaning behind the final episode of The Sopranos. I know most people like a nice tidy ending, but I like it when I get to choose the ending.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2007 5:29:34 am PDT #2846 of 28176
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am rereading Agatha Christie mysteries on the bus-- I can do about 1 and 1/2 books per day. And while they are enjoyable, I keep being shocked by the racism and classism in them. I can't tell if Agatha Christie is brilliantly skewering the attitudes of the British at the time, or is so steeped in that culture that she doesn't even notice.
Also, I am finding a couple of the mystery "surprises" seem a little bit like cheating. That is, she writes thoughts from the point of view of the murder and doesn't include the murderous thoughts. I a little disappointed as they were favorites growing up.
They are, however, perfect bus books-- small, paperback, quick and absorbing. I tried to read a biography of Elizabeth I and two Jodi Picoult books on the bus, and I couldn't concentrate.