'Ariel'
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."
Yah, monkey was golden but Coulter was dark and sleek.
very first mention of her in Golden Compass, p. 37: "..a beautiful young lady whose dark hair falls, shining delicately, under the shadow of her fur-lined hood,...." then on p. 58: "She was beautiful and young. Her sleek black hair framed her cheeks, and her daemon was a golden monkey."
But if Pullman is so keen on Kidman, then i have no argument with the blonde :)
I've grumbled off and on on the board about how the Seattle library system isn't putting enough, you know, books in its fancy new buildings. Looks like I'm not alone in my annoyance: [link]
ETA graph showing most popular books according to numbers of holds at SPL for the most recent week: [link]
From the dept of things that are awesome, Cormac McCarthy chats with the Coen Brothers: [link]
I just finished From Where the Sun Now Stands, by Will Henry, a novel about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce seen through the eyes of a young warrior from Joseph's family. It's at once tragedy and coming-of-age story, and I so badly wished I could rewrite history and give them a different ending.
It's an older book, published in 1959, and is currently out of print, but it's been reissued recently enough to be available for cheap at Amazon and in the collections of many libraries.
I don't normally read Westerns, but I'm glad I made an exception in this case. An excellent and moving book.
Recommendations: Anansi Boys and The Book Thief.
Ok - I read American Gods as my First Neil Gaiman novel.
I liked it fine enough. Would I like Coraline?
(conversation in movies reminded me)
Do you generally like creepy kids' books? I like both American Gods and Coraline, but they're very different books. It's a lot shorter than American Gods, so there's that.
I think almost everyone liked Coraline. My other favorite Gaiman books are probably Stardust and Neverwhere.
Do you generally like creepy kids' books?
I don't think that I've really ever read any creepy kids books. As I said, American Gods was my first Gaiman novel, but it was also one of the first .... good lord, I don't even know what genre to put him in.
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I read a lot of romance and Hollywood biographies (when I'm not reading Harry Potter). I burnt out on them last year and started going through Joe's mostly sci fi library. I started with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. I loved them. Then onto American Gods. I'm trying to widen my reading horizons before I turn into middleaged motherly cliche - taking the kids to soccer practice with a Danielle Steel novel tucked under my arm.
Were you (or Em) around for Fay's reading of Wolves in the Walls at the SF2F?
I'd put Gaiman somewhere between fantasy and magical realism, genrewise.
Were you (or Em) around for Fay's reading of Wolves in the Walls at the SF2F?
I think we left in the middle of it. Em has a copy of it that she loves.