RIP Arthur C. Clarke
Awwwww....
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
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."
dcp - Mar 18, 2008 2:41:21 pm PDT #5290 of 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 3:40:03 pm PDT #5291 of 28344
I'm going to have to re-acquire Roll of Thunder when I'm next home. I probably haven't read it in 20 years, but it was on repeat for quite a while. I can vividly recall the images of the land, structures and books (oh, the books) it drew in my mind. I wonder if they'd change. I have a clear impression of red dirt.
I don't know if it is just that I read them all at the same time and they are all oh the humanity, but Sadako, Return to Manzanar, a non-Anne Frank authored Anne Frank-book, a YA about someone named Liese during WW2, a YA about deportation to the Steppes during Stalinism and The Great Gilly Hopkins all share a common area in my head.
With few exceptions, I can't put anything down, no matter how upsetting or unsettling the story.
Probably took me a box of kleenex and liters of water to get through Four Spirits. (Fictional novel wrapped around the 16th Street Church bombing in B'ham .)
Amy - Mar 18, 2008 3:45:57 pm PDT #5292 of 28344
Because books.
I've never read Roll of Thunder. There was another book that hit me hard, though ... and of course I can't remember the name of it now. Something about the redfern? Or the lilies?
Damn it. I have to Google now. Ah! Where the Lilies Bloom was the title.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 3:50:21 pm PDT #5293 of 28344
Ah, The Endless Steppe .
Laga - Mar 18, 2008 3:50:54 pm PDT #5294 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
There's also Where the Red Fern Grows but that's about dogs.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 3:58:55 pm PDT #5295 of 28344
Amy, I remember that one too! Appalachia, poverty and orphans. With the mentally challenged sister, right?
Amy - Mar 18, 2008 4:01:34 pm PDT #5296 of 28344
Because books.
Yes! Damn, now I want to reread all of these books. Aimee, you want me to do your homework for you?
And Laga, Where the Redfern Grows was the title I was conflating with Lilies.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 4:05:15 pm PDT #5297 of 28344
Yeah, me too. I'm mentally combing the bookshelf in my old bedroom. I know exactly where I put some of those books when I moved out.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 18, 2008 4:10:41 pm PDT #5298 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
About ten years ago, I designed the costumes for The Diary of Anne Frank. I read so many books about the Holacaust, and in particular young people, that I completely made myself sick with grief. To the point that I still have recurring Holocaust dreams. Then I realized that there was literally nothing I could do about history and I had learned enough that I hope I would be able to fight against something like that in the future. And so I am no longer able to read about the Holocaust, and I may be missing some good books, but I am OK with that to spare my mental health.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2008 4:18:53 pm PDT #5299 of 28344
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
a YA about someone named Liese during WW2
Number the Stars, I think.