Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
Mom: And I learned some slang, too! I never knew before that boys call their erections "boners."
Ahaha! Wow. I'm really glad that Part-Time Indian won the National Book Award (for Young People's Literature) last year; I think it's an important book as well as a great one, and I hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves.
Must read The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ! Especially since I am fairly well-versed in both conversational Spanish and conversational geek.
Can you? It seems so un-Spanish.
That's why it sounded so bad! In my head.
I pronounce Juno JU-no and Junot ju-NO, but I'm not sure where I picked that up. The Junot I know was a French general, so it may have been just my own vague and inaccurate way of Frenching it up in my head.I imagine that there are many pronunciations of the name. "Juno" is just the way this particular Junot says his own name.
(I just re-read, and that sounds snippy in my head. It wasn't meant to be snippy at all, just to be clear.)
It didn't come across as snippy at all, Kristin. My original post was sort of an embarrassed, "My God, have I been Jean-Andoche Junot's name wrong all this time? Maybe I should learn French sooner rather than later so I don't put my foot in my mouth."
I missed the lunar eclipse because I was finally finishing The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, which was great fun once it finally got going. I definitely recommend it if you like thieves and con men and fantastic cities and that whole Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser thing.
(De-lurking to say-)
The Lies of Locke Lamora! My teenage sons and I devoured that one last year and we're now re-reading it, in preparation for reading the sequel, Red Seas Under Red Skies. I hope it comes close being as much fun as Locke Lamora (although second books in a series rarely are, sigh.)
Has anyone read the new People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks yet? I LOVED her other books (March, Year of Wonders, and Nine Parts of Desire).
Also, having mentioned March, I just finished a joint biography of Louisa May Alcott and her father that was quite good, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson.
(Returning to lurk mode now.)
Hi, Shari!
I've had Year of Wonders on my shelf for a couple of years, but haven't read it yet. I want to, though!
That biography sounds great. ::makes note::
I just finished a joint biography of Louisa May Alcott and her father that was quite good, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson.
Oh, cool. I find the Alcotts endlessly fascinating.
Speaking of classic children's lit authors and their relatives, I've been meaning to order Ghost in the Little House, a bio about Rose Wilder Lane. I'm not a fan of what I've heard is the author's theory that RWL was the ghost-writer of the Little House books, but I still find her life fascinating, so I'm interested in reading this.
Oh, don't say that! Half Pint totally wrote the books!
::clings to illusions::