Ah, The Endless Steppe .
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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."
sarameg - Mar 18, 2008 3:50:21 pm PDT #5293 of 28344
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.
Laga - Mar 18, 2008 4:20:06 pm PDT #5300 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm the same way with movies. After Life is Beautiful I was done with holocaust tales. Likewise The Deer Hunter and POW films.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2008 4:38:21 pm PDT #5301 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I think Roll of Thunder is a terrific book.
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2008 4:40:22 pm PDT #5302 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Out of all the Holocaust reading I've done, the best (in at least offering some hope) that I've read is Escape from Sobibor, about a (somewhat) successful camp breakout (50 out of 275,000 people sent to the camp survive to VE day). There was a good TV film made from the book starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer.