'Serenity'
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."
I'm going call that a prophetic dream, okay?
Works for me! I turn in my writing samples today after I get my current supervisor to sign the internal app for transfer. After the past two weeks of post-Ike insurance company insanity, I'm very ready to be out of this department.
If I get this, I just may get a pink cardigan in your honor, Teppy.
I've read 27, but boy howdy was there some crap among the gems on that list.
I've read 34 of the Esquire list that Jezebel linked to (which was also a mix of the sublime and the stupid). So I still have guy credentials, I guess.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is not on the list.
I'm surprised by that too. There's no Margaret Atwood either.
If I get this, I just may get a pink cardigan in your honor, Teppy.
I won't hold you to that. But I have been known to have dreams that end up happening IRL, for no rational explanation (like, if I dreamed that Obama won the election, I wouldn't call myself a seer; and, frankly, you're such a good writer that you getting the job doesn't *isn't,* actually, a dream that's unexplainable).
Actually I miscounted, I’ve read 20. Books I’ve read that I’d recommend: The Secret History, Persepolis, and Cold Comfort Farm. Books I’ve read that I hated: Madame Bovary, The Second Sex, and The Good Earth. I’ve tried to read both Possession and Sophie’s Choice, but ended up putting them down. Although I think I would really like Possession.
But I have been known to have dreams that end up happening IRL, for no rational explanation
Would you have a dream that someone buys my house, despite the current economic mess?
Then maybe I can relax a bit and maybe read a couple of the books on that list.
that list is another one of those, let's take a representative selection from each woman writer, throw in a few men writing about women, and call it an essential list.
Yeah, the fact that most of the books were suggestions from comments really shows. I mean, And Then There Were None is fun and all, but essential reading for women? And Angela's Ashes? Seriously?
There's stuff I'd quibble with on the The Esquire list, but nothing that seems quite so "I've lost the point and am just listing books I liked."
I won't hold you to that
I'll content myself with my turquoise pashmina, then.
I'll content myself with my turquoise pashmina, then.
That's much more your style than a pink cardigan -- even in the dream, I wondered why you were wearing it!
I wondered why you were wearing it!
Was it paired with rhinestone cat's-eye glasses?