Dexter that I'm currently listening to
Nick Landrum? Sounds familiar...good to avoid.
Nadine Gordimer
Sounds lovely, AND a Nobel winner. Great recommendation.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
beekaytee - Nov 28, 2007 12:29:31 pm PST #4381 of 28260
Compassionately intolerant
Strega - Nov 28, 2007 1:26:26 pm PST #4382 of 28260
The NEA's new report on reading patterns in the U.S.: [link] (pdf)
Short version: fewer people are reading; fewer people can read; this is bad.
Polter-Cow - Nov 28, 2007 1:31:52 pm PST #4383 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, crap. J.K. Rowling isn't trying hard enough.
hippocampus - Nov 29, 2007 5:14:08 am PST #4384 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
Is anyone here a McSweeney's subscriber?
lisah - Nov 29, 2007 5:41:03 am PST #4385 of 28260
Punishingly Intricate
but I remember being awed the sheer sound of one particular author/reader on a long commute ages ago: Nadime Gordimer.
isn't she South African?
hippocampus - Nov 29, 2007 5:42:03 am PST #4386 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
isn't she South African?
yes she is.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 29, 2007 5:56:11 am PST #4387 of 28260
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I don't recall who read the Dexter that I'm currently listening to, but he's annoying. If I had any hope of getting the book itself out of the library itseld I'd go that way instead.
They so should have gotten Michael C. Hall to do those.
Scrappy - Nov 29, 2007 8:41:07 am PST #4388 of 28260
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We are, Sox.
hippocampus - Nov 29, 2007 8:42:11 am PST #4389 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
how do you like it Scrappy?
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 6:20:24 am PST #4390 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have a question about Laurell K. Hamilton. I've never read her, but I find this sentence from her Wikipedia entry hilarious:
Her prose eschews the use of the subjunctive mode.
What is that supposed to mean? That is the sole descriptor of her prose. That's her trademark? That she doesn't realize that it's "I wish I were"?