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
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."
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
There are so many Indian authors! I'll have nothing left to write about!
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.
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.
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.
Well, they called it library - I love the Chinoiserie shelf and that built in corner bookshelf.
I love the Chinoiserie shelf
I know, it's gorgeous. And I covet built in bookcases.
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.
I always take library to mean your collection of books, but that might be French influence which uses the same word for the bookcase and the room.
I feel like Crocodile Dundee: "Now that's a library."