(grinning and blowing a kiss toward Ice)
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Picked up Comfort Me With Apples, yesterday, determined to read at least one chapter for my book group, and couldn't put it down until I finished it. Ruth Riechl is now the editor of Gourmet, but she was a chef, then food critic in Berkeley, then LA. I loved the local details, her writing about food is sublime, and the snippets of her personal and family life were entrancing and heartbreaking.
Also, I kept thinking, Betsy is this good, too.
Also, I kept thinking, Betsy is this good, too.
Heh.
Thanks for the tip, JC. And I got your note. I'm glad it went well and I'm sorry I missed the cake & everything.
Will call later.
I like Danny Kaye better anyway. Mmm, The Court Jester.
Taken from minearverse, but Danny Kaye is IN Comfort Me with Apples. He was a great chef, and became friends with RR.
Thanks to whoever mentioned Dennis Lehane. His work should help me get through till new-to-me Homicide comes out...I stayed up too late last night reading (memfault) Island.I'll tell myself I won't again, but probably. Just, damn. Nice echoes of Bayliss-in-pain, imo.Not the same pain, but the same feel, if you get me.And I don't(quite) mean porn.
Shutter Island, Erika? I liked that one, although I was a bit thrown by people using the phrase "anger management" in, what was it, the 1950s?
That's true...that's not quite right.You'd think it wouldn't be hard to find out what terminology was in vogue.But the ending threw me, and I flatter myself I'm good at that. And he writes like a dream...a scary, upsetting dream, but hey...
I just read Lehane's Gone, Baby, Gone a couple of weeks ago. The man ripped my heart out in the last couple of chapters. I was deeply impressed. I won't be reading another one of his books for a little while, until the first one settles. But it was a good mystery.
Oh, thank you, java cat. That means a lot.
Well, Betsy, she's right.
Also: Anne W. 's Neverwhere DVDs are going back to her shortly, unless someone wants to take her up on her offer of loan. Email her at her profile addy if you'd like them next.