Oh, Perkins DOES so rock. She's amazing.
One of the AP teachers on my listserv rec'd it and the local indie ordered it for me. I should be getting it on Friday. I'll let you know what I think. I also have your book on order, Amy.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:08:30 pm PDT #29081 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
DavidS - Sep 28, 2011 6:09:06 pm PDT #29082 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Braves are trying to kill me.
Ha! I came over specifically to ask if the Braves were trying to make you cry.
Allyson - Sep 28, 2011 6:17:12 pm PDT #29083 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I like my sugar with coffee and cream...and peas.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 6:21:19 pm PDT #29084 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Peas were never an option.
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 6:22:37 pm PDT #29085 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Has anyone here read The Forest of Hands and Teeth?
I really liked it. She managed to keep a good horror movie pace of danger without anyone doing anything notably stupid and had some interesting psychological insights into a society built on an ever-present threat.
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2011 6:25:40 pm PDT #29086 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Too lazy to look in literary: Has anyone here read The Forest of Hands and Teeth? I wanna know the skinny on it.
I did -- I really liked it, although I felt like there was a direction the author should have gone, but she didn't. I can't really call that a problem with the story, though; it was more that I was really curious about one detail but the story didn't really support an elaboration.
Not an extremely *happy* book, though.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:28:01 pm PDT #29087 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
More or less depressing than The Road?
Cause this spring I read both The Road and Winter's Bone which I thought were amazing books but, whoa, depressing. I'm already gun-in-mouth so maybe I shouldn't push my luck? I read Left Neglected yesterday and that, while somewhat depressing, is also not so much.
Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:29:09 pm PDT #29088 of 30001
Because books.
Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 6:32:25 pm PDT #29089 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Are there books more depressing than The Road ?
Ethan Frome
The Forest of Hands and Teeth doesn't have a fundamentally bleak view of human nature.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:34:46 pm PDT #29090 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?
Oh god yes! Those aspirational books where the heroine has a lovely house in the Back Bay and a cabin in Stowe, with her lovely children on their way to Phillips Exeter or Andover and their big trust funds? Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.