'A Hole in the World'
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 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.
I can't wait to read that, Barb.
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.
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?
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.
Did anyone else have trouble getting into it during the first half and then find themselves hooked for the last half?
Jen, I'm in the minority, but I was never hooked. I had to make myself finish the damn thing.
I wasn't hooked beyond my usual hate-to-put-books-down ish. But HMOG. I'm glad I read it. It prompts lots of discussion. I think his book of short stories is much much stronger. So many of the characters in Oscar Wao are just sort of asshatian that it makes it hard to get through.
LOVE Sherman Alexie. I just reread Reservation Blues which is knockout.
Rumor has it Alexie has a new YA book coming.
And that it's the sequel to Absolutely True Diary ! The other YA book he was working on has been postponed.
I love Alexie completely. I am going to write a short story called stalking Sherman Alexie. In college, I went to Olsen's and saw him read and was transfixed. Then it was like, every time he read, I was there. I even went to Sacramento to hear him give a talk to a group of English teachers.
His poetry is marvelous. It's even anthologized in AP readers (like the textbook Legacies). AND Junot Diaz is in there too now.
He is amazing.