P-C, have you read The Namesake? I read it for book club and finished it last night. It's about an Indian-American family.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave 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."
flea - Jan 29, 2008 3:04:36 pm PST #4950 of 28343
information libertarian
Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2008 3:14:23 pm PST #4951 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loved the movie and have wanted to read the book. It was one of the ones I was thinking of getting. Seems as good a choice as any! Thanks.
hippocampus - Jan 29, 2008 9:10:18 pm PST #4952 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
P-C - it's probably too late, but (staying with the area, but not the period, necessarily) The God of Small Things Arundati Roy; A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry, A River Sutra, Gita Mehta.
Also Haroun and the Sea of Stories, also by Rushdie
Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2008 9:23:50 pm PST #4953 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There are so many Indian authors! I'll have nothing left to write about!
Jessica - Jan 30, 2008 3:31:15 am PST #4954 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The movie's a bit silly, but not terrible.
Oh, I thought it was completely terrible. One of the laziest and sloppiest pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen.
Hayden - Jan 30, 2008 6:24:02 am PST #4955 of 28343
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Maybe so. I remember laughing at something in it, but I don't actually remember anything at all about the movie, just my impressions of it.
sumi - Jan 30, 2008 7:41:22 am PST #4956 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2008 7:45:11 am PST #4957 of 28343
brillig
Designer's and their libraries.
Some of those aren't libraries, they're only bookshelves. Kudos for owning books, but I think to be called a library it should have more than one rank of shelves.
That pile of books looks more like an attempt at an end table rather than a pile of books to be read.
sumi - Jan 30, 2008 7:46:39 am PST #4958 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Well, they called it library - I love the Chinoiserie shelf and that built in corner bookshelf.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2008 7:48:18 am PST #4959 of 28343
brillig
I love the Chinoiserie shelf
I know, it's gorgeous. And I covet built in bookcases.