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Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my assâ€”which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.

Lorne ,'Time Bomb'

We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good

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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."

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Java cat - Mar 01, 2004 11:22:47 am PST #1081 of 10002

Not javachik

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.

Consuela - Mar 01, 2004 11:37:10 am PST #1082 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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.

Java cat - Mar 03, 2004 3:30:45 pm PST #1083 of 10002

Not javachik

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.

erikaj - Mar 03, 2004 5:00:42 pm PST #1084 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

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.

Angus G - Mar 04, 2004 1:44:31 am PST #1085 of 10002

Roguish Laird

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?

erikaj - Mar 04, 2004 4:57:09 am PST #1086 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

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...

Calli - Mar 04, 2004 5:57:45 am PST #1087 of 10002

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

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.

Betsy HP - Mar 04, 2004 7:55:07 am PST #1088 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

Oh, thank you, java cat. That means a lot.

Beverly - Mar 04, 2004 9:58:27 am PST #1089 of 10002

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

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.

deborah grabien - Mar 04, 2004 1:01:04 pm PST #1090 of 10002

It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Well, Betsy, she's right.

Haven't read the book, so I can't make that comparison.

I can, however, say flat out that Betsy does this better than damned enar anyone out there, and ought to have her own column.

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