That's a good list
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
Simon ,'Safe'
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."
beth b - Apr 24, 2009 5:24:25 pm PDT #9017 of 28406
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 5:24:35 pm PDT #9018 of 28406
Because books.
Oh, we read Sir Gawain! And some Chaucer.
I meant to add, Kat, I sent e with book recs to your profile address on Sunday. Wasn't sure if that was the right one, but I did!
P.M. Marc - Apr 24, 2009 5:25:57 pm PDT #9019 of 28406
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I like your required reading, Kat! Wow. I've read the whole list. I think I own everything but Handmaid's Tale (mostly because it's my least-favorite Atwood so I never bothered to buy it--I find Surfacing a more powerful version of the same kind of feminist rage).
sj - Apr 24, 2009 5:27:05 pm PDT #9020 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Senior year was Honors English. We read novels in the first semester: I can only remember Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Hesse's "Siddhartha", and Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" at the moment. I know there was more.
The second semester was plays: "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" "The Father", "A Dollhouse", "Hedda Gabbler", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and once again I forget what else.
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 5:27:51 pm PDT #9021 of 28406
Because books.
I read Handmaid's Tale in one day, while on jury duty (better known as sitting in a nasty waiting room and never being called). I still need to catch up on Atwood -- I have a couple I've never read, but I loved her early stuff.
Atropa - Apr 24, 2009 5:29:44 pm PDT #9022 of 28406
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, you own the book, or you borrowed it? Because if you own it, I MUST READ.
OF COURSE I own it. Hello, do you know me? Don't worry, I'll hand it to you when I'm done with it.
sj - Apr 24, 2009 5:31:36 pm PDT #9023 of 28406
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, If you bring it to the F2F, I might want to take a glance at it.
Barb - Apr 24, 2009 5:34:09 pm PDT #9024 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
Picture of Dorian Gray
Kat, you'll love this-- Nate, at the bookstore the other day, comes up to me and says, "Mom, what's the deal with The Picture of Dorian Gray?"
"Why, Nate?"
"Well, because in the graphic novel section I saw a copy of it and then in the tower section, they have a novel."
"It's pretty well known."
Gives me the patented twelve-year-old boy look. "Well, yeah, I figured that, but is it good?"
"I think so."
"Can I get it?"
"Which one--the graphic novel or the regular novel."
"Can I have both?"
Hee!
Atropa - Apr 24, 2009 5:34:44 pm PDT #9025 of 28406
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sure, sj.
Dana - Apr 24, 2009 5:39:00 pm PDT #9026 of 28406
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hrm, senior year. AP English. King Lear, Pride and Prejudice, Jude the Obscure...um...
It's possible that I wasn't paying huge amounts of attention in senior year English. Especially the second half.