Just finished Oscar Wao. I think I wanted to like it much more than I did. Which is a bummer. I'm glad I'm done so I can be DONE with it (I have wicked completest issues). I need something light and fluffy and then it's off to Jane Smiley.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Kat - Jun 18, 2008 8:58:50 pm PDT #6417 of 28596
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Fred Pete - Jun 19, 2008 5:41:34 am PDT #6418 of 28596
Ann, that's a ferret.
Kat, you could always go with Moo and take care of light and fluffy and Jane Smiley with one book.
Jesse - Jun 19, 2008 5:56:07 am PDT #6419 of 28596
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fred, I was thinking the exact same thing!
Kat - Jun 19, 2008 5:57:53 am PDT #6420 of 28596
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA. I could. But I have to read A Thousand Acres instead. So in the interim, i'm reading Whacked by Jules Asner, which was one of the freebies I got at BEA.
Jilli, I missed the Gaiman ARC that they were giving out. So that makes me even more jealous of your preread!
Fred Pete - Jun 19, 2008 6:00:39 am PDT #6421 of 28596
Ann, that's a ferret.
Oooooo. Yes, A Thousand Acres is anything but light and fluffy. Wonderful, especially in the characters' voices, but not light entertainment.
sumi - Jun 19, 2008 6:10:59 am PDT #6422 of 28596
Art Crawl!!!
Pix - Jun 19, 2008 9:40:13 am PDT #6423 of 28596
The status is NOT quo.
I love A Thousand Acres, though. I've been meaning to read Moo but haven't yet. If I get through the pile o'books I have to read this summer, maybe I'll get to Moo.
Fred Pete - Jun 19, 2008 10:26:35 am PDT #6424 of 28596
Ann, that's a ferret.
Kristin, Moo is a laugh riot. Especially for anyone familiar with academia.
Pix - Jun 19, 2008 10:36:29 am PDT #6425 of 28596
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks, Fred! ND owns it and said the same, so I'm very intrigued. I will add it to the pile.
Maysa - Jun 19, 2008 11:04:38 am PDT #6426 of 28596
Just finished Oscar Wao. I think I wanted to like it much more than I did. Which is a bummer.
Is the book as good as his short stories are? I love those, but I'm reluctant to read Oscar Wao, because sometimes good short story writers aren't such good novelists.