I have been pushing Kindred lately, which I love. And I have kids who are into vampires, so I thought I might try to sell Fledgling too.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
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 - Mar 07, 2009 2:00:13 pm PST #8553 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2009 2:07:41 pm PST #8554 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother used to want me to stop reading SF&F, and tossed Kindred to me in that cause. She should have checked the rest of Butler's oeuvre beforehand...
My sister who only consumes SF&F because of me liked Kindred on its own terms. I thought it was a wonderful book. Thought-provoking and powerful.
Pix - Mar 07, 2009 3:28:52 pm PST #8555 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.
Oh yes, I adore Kindred. One of my favorite books, actually, and I agree much better than Fledgling.
flea - Mar 10, 2009 8:54:30 am PDT #8556 of 28431
information libertarian
I am doing a project called Understanding The American South. Recommend books to me that speak to this topic - history, culture, cooking, whatever. (Nonfiction preferred, though - I am not much of a fiction reader).
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 8:59:31 am PDT #8557 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
WJ Cash - The Mind of the South
VO Key - Southern Politics in State and Nation
C Vann Woodward - The Origins of the New South
C Vann Woodward - The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:02:01 am PDT #8558 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lawrence Goodwyn - The Populist Moment
C Vann Woodward - Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel
Robert Wiebe - The Search for Order 1877 - 1920
Gavin Wright - Old South, New South
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:04:16 am PDT #8559 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Carter Woodson - The Mis-Education of the Negro
Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom
Stanley Elkins - Slavery
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland (esp for the sections about George Wallace)
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:06:38 am PDT #8560 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fiction:
Faulkner - Absolam! Absolam! and As I Lay Dying
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Larry Brown - Big Bad Love
Barry Hannah - Airships
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:07:23 am PDT #8561 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
lisah - Mar 10, 2009 9:14:20 am PDT #8562 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
hah! You are on it! All I could think of were these collections of stories we read for my southern lit class in grad school: Stories of the Old South and Stories of the New South. There was great stuff in both of them.