Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Utterly so.
Weirdest conversation with my mother as a result of that book:
Mom: It taught me so much about what it means for a boy to become a man in our culture. I was sobbing by the end.
Me: Wow. I really need to read it.
Mom: And I learned some slang, too! I never knew before that boys call their erections "boners."
Me: ......
Mom: I thought I knew what they meant from the context, but I had to look it up to make sure.
Me: ::hurls self from moving car::
That's actually kinda cute...
Love him...making him laugh was one of my life's highlights.(I went to his reading in a pow wow t-shirt that he thought was funny.) Glad to hear he's at work again.
You know, my favourite euphemism for the youknow is "unsponsored wood." I about bust a gut laughing when I first heard that term.
I just finished The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (I think that's it), by Junot Diaz, and I definitely recommend it, but only if you speak at least some spanish and at least some geek. There's a lot of each, and you can kind of slide by assuming what he means by things, but it goes a lot easier if you actually know what he's talking about.I just met him! He was one of the speakers at the Key West Literary Conference, and he addressed the geek/Spanish thing directly. He said that one of the reasons that he wrote the book the way he did was to force the reader into one essential aspect of the immigrant experience: never quite understanding everything going on around you. He wanted to create some level of discomfort with the narrative. Fascinating speaker (cute, too).
He said that one of the reasons that he wrote the book the way he did was to force the reader into one essential aspect of the immigrant experience: never quite understanding everything going on around you. He wanted to create some level of discomfort with the narrative.
Oh, that's really cool.
OH! How do you pronounce Junot? That's been killing me.
Fascinating speaker (cute, too).
I've had a crush on him for ages. Literary. I haven't read the new book yet. Must get in on that!
In other news not really about the book, I was reading the acknowledgements like I always do (what, I think I'm going to know someone?) and one of the last names was, in fact, someone I went to high school with. Hilarious.
I was reading the acknowledgements like I always do (what, I think I'm going to know someone?)
I do this too! Just in case. Because the world is very small.
OH! How do you pronounce Junot? That's been killing me.Like the movie Juno, silent "t."