WANT the Terhunes, Katerina! Insent with address and stuff.
'A Hole in the World'
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."
Katerina, could I have the Nancy Collins, please?
eta: insent to your profile addy.
Gentle Readers, I have assigned new homes to: The Terhune books, the Midnight Blue Collection, and Girl in Hyacinth Blue. (wheedling) Come on, take a book... the first one's free!
Allo! I've been lurking about this thread for a couple of weeks or so. I was wondering if anyone here's read anything by Jodi Picoult, and if so if they've read or are reading her newest, 'My Sister's Keeper'. There's a petty font issue I've got with it that's driving me bonkers and I need back-up in my annoyance!
I read In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner over the weekend. I laughed, I cried, & couldn't put it down until the last page was turned. It's in production now, being made into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette.
I couldn't put it down, and yet didn't like it that much. I liked the beginning, but hated the Hollywood stuff towards the end.
I hope Toni Collette and not Cameron Diaz is Cannie
Here’s something I thought Literary readers might appreciate:
The April 2004 issue of The New Yorker includes a profile of “The Storyteller: Madeleine L’Engle,” and the article starts off describing the Scholastic Books paperback edition of “A Wrinkle in Time,” the one with a blue cover decorated with concentric green circles. This is the exact volume I have treasured since 196 (cough).
“A Wrinkle in Time” will be presented to us as a made for TV special on ABC sometime in May. I take heart reading that the executive producer Catherine Hand says she “fell in love” with the book when she was 10. Furthermore, she’s quoted as saying “The engine that drives it is Meg’s inner life, and it’s astonishing, because here is a girl who at the moment is stronger than her father. For some of us, it planted the seeds of the women’s movement. I have had wonderful conservations with Madeleine, as a friend, who is, of course, Meg.”
Ima set my Tivo to capture this one.
“A Wrinkle in Time” will be presented to us as a made for TV special on ABC sometime in May. I take heart reading that the executive producer Catherine Hand says she “fell in love” with the book when she was 10. Furthermore, she’s quoted as saying “The engine that drives it is Meg’s inner life, and it’s astonishing, because here is a girl who at the moment is stronger than her father. For some of us, it planted the seeds of the women’s movement. I have had wonderful conservations with Madeleine, as a friend, who is, of course, Meg.”
And they got Gregory Smith to play Calvin.
t /shallow
t like that tag turns off
Gregory Smith? (checks boogle). Oh dear. I didn't enjoy his whiny angst ridden teen routine in Everwood. I must be getting old.
There's a petty font issue I've got with it ...
I hear this. I never did read Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" because the eyestrain factor produced by the too-bold, bleeding edged font was just too great. Also, books set in Souvenir automatically lose 20 or so intelligence points AFAI concerned.