JZ - yup. I remember it actually getting pretty good reviews ... but if you really disliked her, then I'd say avoid it.
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."
Toddson - Apr 20, 2009 7:50:09 am PDT #8910 of 28444
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2009 7:55:04 am PDT #8911 of 28444
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Good goddamn, I had no idea there were so many P&P sequels/riffs.
Kathy A - Apr 20, 2009 7:57:59 am PDT #8912 of 28444
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've read one of those called Pemberly by (I think) Andrea Barrett. She also wrote a follow-up on Sense and Sensibility called The Third Sister, about the youngest daughter whose name I can't remember offhand.
Dana - Apr 20, 2009 8:01:42 am PDT #8913 of 28444
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Margaret.
Barb - Apr 20, 2009 8:30:11 am PDT #8914 of 28444
“Not dead yet!”
I just waded into the pool of reviewing books by reviewing Beyond Heaving Bosoms- The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels. [link]
Aside from the fact that I consider Sarah and Candy to be friends, this is a really wonderful book that talks about the good, the bad, and the mullet-y within romance and the romance community.
Amy - Apr 20, 2009 10:09:17 am PDT #8915 of 28444
Because books.
I can't wait to read that, Barb.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2009 12:30:45 pm PDT #8916 of 28444
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Book recommendations! I had a Sherman Alexie weekend: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Flight. The first book is fantastic and lovable, and the second is very good.
Barb - Apr 20, 2009 1:59:25 pm PDT #8917 of 28444
“Not dead yet!”
Jen - Apr 21, 2009 5:43:39 am PDT #8918 of 28444
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
My apologies if this has been discussed already, but I'm halfway through Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I should keep reading (and this is aunque hablo español, so it's not the Dominican slang that's bothering me).
Did anyone else have trouble getting into it during the first half and then find themselves hooked for the last half?
Jesse - Apr 21, 2009 6:04:46 am PDT #8919 of 28444
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We have talked about it some, and what I said was that it was hard, but worthwhile. I kept putting it down to read something else, and then coming back to it.