My "beach reading" for my vacay:
The Kite Runner
Oliver Twist
White Teeth
Twelfth Night
Gothic Charm School
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Woohoo!!
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
Aims - Jun 26, 2009 6:37:59 am PDT #9411 of 28404
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Fay - Jun 26, 2009 6:44:28 am PDT #9412 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oooh! I've not read White Teeth, but I read On Beauty a few weeks ago, and it knocked my socks off.
Sue - Jun 26, 2009 8:11:05 am PDT #9413 of 28404
hip deep in pie
White Teeth is awesome. Better than On Beauty, IMO.
Jesse - Jun 26, 2009 8:25:24 am PDT #9414 of 28404
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, I had the opposite opinion -- loved On Beauty, felt like I slogged through most of White Teeth. At the time, I thought it was because I couldn't relate to any of the characters, really.
Sue - Jun 26, 2009 9:17:04 am PDT #9415 of 28404
hip deep in pie
I will admit that I thought White Teeth dragged in the middle. But I loved the first and last thirds so much, it compensated.
sj - Jun 26, 2009 11:27:10 am PDT #9416 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, I brought in one of your promotional bookmarks and mentioned the Gaiman name check when I went to my comic book store today. They seemed interested in carrying it.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2009 11:28:23 am PDT #9417 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooh, sj, that's a great idea. I'll see if my comic book store is interested.
sj - Jun 28, 2009 9:13:56 am PDT #9418 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jilli, there were three copies of your book on the new non-fiction table at my local Barnes and Noble.
Kat - Jun 28, 2009 11:33:08 am PDT #9419 of 28404
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Has anyone else read Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan's book The Strain?
Amy - Jun 28, 2009 11:35:54 am PDT #9420 of 28404
Because books.
I know Ailleann is reading it and loving it, and my MOM picked it up, which is just the weirdest thing EVER for me. (Apparently she read some British mystery series with a paranormal twist -- a female vicar who becomes a sort of exorcist -- and now just loves supernatural stuff. She seems to think it's about zombies, though, and Ailleann assures me it's about vampires .)