I've read all of those!
Not a fan of Birchbark House, but that was my Louise Erdrich issue. I did like Kira-Kira but didn't think it was award worthy.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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 - Jan 07, 2009 3:18:00 pm PST #8283 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 3:32:33 pm PST #8284 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
The Erdich book I loved loved loved was Love Medicine, but every other book I've read by her has suffered in comparison. Or maybe they suffered alone. I know I suffered.
Strix - Jan 07, 2009 3:55:55 pm PST #8285 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I agree. I love "Love Medicine" but I'm betting the prof has taught it so many times in the last 20 years that prof needed a shift.
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 4:19:33 pm PST #8286 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
(I am going back and forth between using italics or quotations or nothing at all for book titles. I just realized that I follow whoever goes before me in the thread. I am a lemming!)
dcp - Jan 07, 2009 4:25:03 pm PST #8287 of 28431
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I like italics or all-caps for book titles, movie titles, TV series names, and album names, then quote marks for article titles, episode titles, and song titles.
Just no underlining for titles, please? Underlining now means it should be a hyperlink.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2009 4:27:34 pm PST #8288 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
HTML writers that just underline and don't change the colour or other form of the link should be smacked.
Jessica - Jan 07, 2009 4:34:18 pm PST #8289 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Almost the first thing I do with any new browser is set links to not be underlined.
Connie Neil - Jan 07, 2009 5:40:31 pm PST #8290 of 28431
brillig
I didn't finish the second Sharing Knife book because I wasn't that interested in the inter-family stuff, I was more interested in the knife itself etc. I still need to find the second Cordelia book.
Polter-Cow - Jan 07, 2009 10:25:07 pm PST #8291 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
FAY! I, too, just finished reading The Name of the Wind and agree that it is awesome for all the reasons you stated!! Here, have a post.
Laga - Jan 08, 2009 10:22:11 am PST #8292 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm able to ration chapters and keep myself from staying up too late reading but it's a battle to put it down sometimes. Still I'm less than 200 pages in.
When Fay wrote about stories within stories within stories I thought it might be confusing but now that I'm in the thick of it I understand. The beginnings of tales are good places to take a break. Maybe if I take long enough reading I won't be done until April 7th when The Wise Man's Fear comes out.