Yes! I read Inkheart yesterday and really enjoyed it. I also found out that the author is a parent at the school where I teach. Her daughter is...a rising senior? Or wait, maybe she just graduated. Anyway, small world. I hope the movie is good. It really could be great if it had the right director, I think.
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
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."
Pix - Jun 12, 2008 3:03:07 pm PDT #6116 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
Volans - Jun 12, 2008 4:00:21 pm PDT #6117 of 28370
move out and draw fire
Brendan Fraser's the father, right? And Andy Serkis is Capricorn?
I thought Cornelia Funke was German...she lives in the US now?
Pix - Jun 12, 2008 4:26:45 pm PDT #6118 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
Yep. In LA.
Laga - Jun 12, 2008 5:25:55 pm PDT #6119 of 28370
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
According to imdb Fraser was the author's original choice for that character.
Consuela - Jun 12, 2008 7:23:06 pm PDT #6120 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Seconding Susan W: the fourth Temeraire was better than the middle two. She takes great strides away from "our" history in that one, and really (I think) opens up the universe.
Undead!Darcy, Juliana? Hee! That play sounds like a kick.
dcp - Jun 13, 2008 3:08:51 pm PDT #6121 of 28370
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Aaaaugh!
Just found out that Janet Kagan died back in March. [link]
Lyme disease (and emphysema) has robbed us of a great storyteller.
R. I. P.
Pix - Jun 13, 2008 10:11:00 pm PDT #6122 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
Huh. Powell's just sent me a review of a really interesting-looking book: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano. Has anyone read it?
Steph L. - Jun 14, 2008 4:35:09 pm PDT #6123 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That sounds really interesting; I'm going to check the library for it. It sounds, in some ways, like the flip side of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man, which I liked a lot.
Tangentially related (okay, in that it's about a woman), I'm in the middle of Woman's World, which is amazing in a meta way because of how the book was literally created; the author spent 5 years clipping out text and images from vintage women's fashion/household magazines and then pasting them into layout form to tell the story. It's all clippings.
It purportedly has a "twist," which I'm pretty sure I guessed by page 8 or so, although if it's what I think it is, I'm kind of by default more attuned to such things, so it was perhaps more obvious to me that early in the book than it might be to other readers.
But surely by 40 or 50 pages in, it's got to be obvious. I'm going to be curious to read reviews when I'm finished, to see at what point other readers twigged to the reveal.
Laga - Jun 14, 2008 5:49:37 pm PDT #6124 of 28370
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
wow that looks really interesting.
I'm looking for a recommendation for my dad. He likes Will Cuppy and Mister Dooley(Finley Peter Dunne), Lewis Grizzard, Carl Hiaasen and PJ O'Rourke. He's interested in the US civil war and he likes jazz, especially Dave Brubeck and Stan Kenton. For his birthday I got him a book about The Everleigh Club called Sin in the Second City. Any ideas?
Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2008 8:49:01 am PDT #6125 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh! You guys, I met Candy Tan from Smart Bitches yesterday at a wedding. She's pretty cool. Her nametag read, "Your Resident D-List Internet Celebrity."