Mistaken Zygote Theory
amyparker, please to explain?
I lurve the library. It's where all of the scripts live. Much cheaper than ordering from Samuel French and Dramatist's.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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."
juliana - Mar 22, 2004 9:52:18 am PST #1728 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Skyzy - Mar 22, 2004 9:53:25 am PST #1729 of 10002
I've been known to leave garbage bags of them on the sidewalk.
I trade mine in at used bookstores. Helps pay for my book addiction. Also, I donate the rest to libraries..hehe!
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 9:54:19 am PST #1730 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
You ended up in the wrong family and it's nobody's fault.(Mistaken Zygote) I heart half.com.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2004 9:55:27 am PST #1731 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I'm in love with Book Crossing.
The Crusie's got to go, but perhaps after I've read some more.
amyparker - Mar 22, 2004 9:58:50 am PST #1732 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
erika beat me to it.
Somebody tell me that if I put the porch swing up, I may not spend the rest of the afternoon reading gardening books and drinking lemonade? The party is Friday, and there's too much to do.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 10:01:14 am PST #1733 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm sorry...apart from my mom, I'm a total MZ, is all. There's a whole chapter in "Women who Run With The Wolves" on it.
msbelle - Mar 22, 2004 10:03:54 am PST #1734 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
From the last 6 months, I have really liked the following:
Mystic River
Coraline
Middlesex
Fast Women
A Gracious Plenty
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A Cold Day for Murder
I have liked enough to keep them (or would if they were mine to keep):
Cold Mountain
You are not a a stranger here
Play with Fire
I have started a lending circle for my Crusie's and will do so with my Lippmans and Lehane's also. Everything else either gets sold on half.com or released ala bookcrossing.com.
Vortex - Mar 22, 2004 10:07:39 am PST #1735 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I've never read it either. It just happened to be a book that wasn't available at my grade school.
That’s okay, because your aren’t a full,tenured English professor at a highly respected institution of higher learning.
When I like something, I don't want to give it back. And I form an irrational attachment to the actual physical book I read the first time. No, I don't want a shiny new one of my own, I want this on
me too. Plus, I can’t wrap my mind around spending money for something I’ve already read. It’s why I don’t own many DVDs. I don’t want to spend money on a movie I haven’t seen, I might hate it, and once I’ve seen it, why spend money on it. I guess I’m just cheap.
I had too many bad books from my book-of-the-month club phase, and not enough shelves.
I have a hard time throwing books away. If I really hate it, I might give it away, but that’s hard, because I don’t want to inflict a bad book on anyone else. For example, my mother gave me a copy of “the Rules”. I will never read it, yet I can’t bring myself to throw it away. In fact, it is turned around in my bookshelf because I am ashamed to own it, but still, I don’t throw it out. I need help.
Jesse - Mar 22, 2004 10:10:21 am PST #1736 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Vortex, this is when you leave the book on a stoop somewhere. Someone will pick it up and read it, and it's out of your hands.
amyparker - Mar 22, 2004 10:13:49 am PST #1737 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I have a hard time throwing books away. If I really hate it, I might give it away, but that’s hard, because I don’t want to inflict a bad book on anyone else.
Prisons, libraries, homeless shelters, hospitals. Any and all of them are a better place for a book that is taking up physical space on your shelves and wasting mental energy that could be spent on something you enjoy. Someone, somewhere, will like it; it's okay to admit that you don't, or you once did and don't anymore, and let it go. This one was tough for me, and I'm still learning it.