I can't wait to read that, Barb.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Amy - Apr 20, 2009 10:09:17 am PDT #8915 of 28414
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2009 12:30:45 pm PDT #8916 of 28414
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 28414
“Not dead yet!”
Jen - Apr 21, 2009 5:43:39 am PDT #8918 of 28414
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 28414
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2009 6:51:09 am PDT #8920 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Kat - Apr 21, 2009 7:05:34 am PDT #8921 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2009 7:26:02 am PDT #8922 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And that it's the sequel to Absolutely True Diary ! The other YA book he was working on has been postponed.
Kat - Apr 21, 2009 7:43:53 am PDT #8923 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Jen - Apr 21, 2009 7:45:44 am PDT #8924 of 28414
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Thanks for the responses! I'm going to keep trying.
P-C, your LJ post really sums up the trouble I'm having with it. (Also, I just added you as a friend on LJ.)