Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.

'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."


Beverly - Apr 19, 2004 10:00:04 am PDT #2283 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

WANT the Terhunes, Katerina! Insent with address and stuff.


Deena - Apr 19, 2004 10:02:09 am PDT #2284 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Katerina, could I have the Nancy Collins, please?

eta: insent to your profile addy.


Katerina Bee - Apr 19, 2004 3:16:31 pm PDT #2285 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

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!


Lilty Cash - Apr 20, 2004 10:35:27 am PDT #2286 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

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!


Java cat - Apr 20, 2004 11:49:21 am PDT #2287 of 10002
Not javachik

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.


Jess M. - Apr 20, 2004 12:25:52 pm PDT #2288 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

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


Katerina Bee - Apr 20, 2004 12:48:43 pm PDT #2289 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

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.


Holli - Apr 20, 2004 1:30:35 pm PDT #2290 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

“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


Katerina Bee - Apr 20, 2004 2:03:25 pm PDT #2291 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

Gregory Smith? (checks boogle). Oh dear. I didn't enjoy his whiny angst ridden teen routine in Everwood. I must be getting old.


Katerina Bee - Apr 20, 2004 2:06:37 pm PDT #2292 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

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.