I just read speak last night. really powerful book. YA books are so very different than what i grew up on.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
beth b - Apr 13, 2004 6:26:49 am PDT #2182 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:36:12 am PDT #2183 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Great stuff by Chabon:
It is in the nature of a teenager to want to destroy. The destructive impulse is universal among children of all ages, rises to a peak of vividness, ingenuity and fascination in adolescence, and thereafter never entirely goes away. Violence and hatred, and the fear of our own inability to control them in ourselves, are a fundamental part of our birthright, along with altruism, creativity, tenderness, pity and love. It therefore requires an immense act of hypocrisy to stigmatize our young adults and teenagers as agents of deviance and disorder. It requires a policy of dishonesty about and blindness to our own histories, as a species, as a nation, and as individuals who were troubled as teenagers, and who will always be troubled, by the same dark impulses. It also requires that favorite tool of the hypocritical, dishonest and fearful: the suppression of constitutional rights.
deborah grabien - Apr 13, 2004 8:40:05 am PDT #2184 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Damn, Mike rocks. I'm having one of my occasional "green with jealousy of Ayelet" moments. He's just so damned cool, in every way.
I'm rereading Kavalier and Klay at the moment. It's just as brilliant the second time around.
erikaj - Apr 13, 2004 8:45:22 am PDT #2185 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I compared it to Homicide at PF...but it so reminded me of something, I was like "I've read this..." But no, it was Pembleton's whole "Everyone's guilty of something" thing. And I'm gonna be writing on my walls any second, huh?
Alicia K - Apr 13, 2004 11:07:56 am PDT #2186 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I've read The Pact by Jodi Picoult. It was a good story, but a tad melodramatic, I thought. I always mean to try another of hers, but never know where to start. I may pick up the new one once it hits paperback.
Beverly - Apr 13, 2004 12:00:54 pm PDT #2187 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The Chabon piece is wonderful. Tina, thanks for sharing it.
erikaj - Apr 13, 2004 12:05:08 pm PDT #2188 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...he's so brilliant. I need to read K&K...I've only read "Wonder Boys" but it really cracked me up.
Jess M. - Apr 13, 2004 12:23:33 pm PDT #2189 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
I'm not sure if this article has been linked before, but it seems to spell out some of Deb's arguments against anonymous reviews at Amazon.
If I'm putting words in your mouth, Deb, please let me know, and I'll edit or delete! I thought it was an interesting article, personally.
deborah grabien - Apr 13, 2004 2:49:06 pm PDT #2190 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jess, it wants a registration.
Jessica - Apr 13, 2004 3:09:34 pm PDT #2191 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How weird -- it doesn't want one from me. (I was going to try buffista/foamy and salon/tabletalk to see if either of those worked.)