'Hell Bound'
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, Plainsong disturbed you? Really? But it's such a gentle book.
Rhiannon, nononono, the groupies are there to peel grapes for you, and bring you lurvely things to nosh. For the schoolwork and shopping, you need minions. How many?
I'm just starting the book Matt (beth's DH) loaned me, a biography of Bert Jansch called "Dazzling Stranger". Already fascinated - and a longtime passing acquaintance with Jansch just makes it more so.
Does anyone have any of Deb's out-of-print books that I could borrow and read during Xmas break? I'm a-gonna buy Weaver, but I'd love to read your other stuff.
Erin, check your library - they may well have "Eyes in the Fire" and/or "Plainsong". A lot of libraries do, and you save the money.
I had to get some of them from inter-library loan, but I was able to find all but one of them. Plainsong was my favorite. It disturbed me, too, though.
It disturbed me, too, though.
But it's so Utopian! And peaceful!
(Yes, I'm joking, but only on the level. If it makes people think, it's done its job.)
If it makes people think
tha's what I meant
disturb isn't bad or good. just made me think more than I planned.
Deb, do you find people have confusion between your book and Kent Haruf's? (obviously because of titles, not so much subject matter).
The reason I ask is that I was in Readerville's YA topic talking about Haruf's Plainsong and other patrons thought I meant yours.
HOWINTHEHELL AM I GOING TO READ ALL THE BOOKS I'M GIVING AS GIFTS BEFORE I GIVE THEM!!!???
It just isn't going to happen. I have too many non-reading chores to get through.
At least there's an active USPS lending library thing happening in my family.
I have too many non-reading chores to get through.
No chores. only read. start with the YA since they go so damned fast.
I am a couple of days late getting this posted. Our Dec. bookclub was on Tuesday. In Dec we all read a different book and give reports. Since we all liked our books (this years theme was other bookclubs and we all, except 1, selected books from the Today Shows list), I though I would list them here as suggestions.
As mentioned before, my book was You are not a Stranger Here. It is a collection of short stories and I loved it. I read one story a day (a suggestion from a bookclub website) and loved that approach. It kept me from getting the stories mixed up and also kept me from getting overwhelmed with some of the more intense plots.
The Known World, Shadow Baby, and Baudolino were the other books read. I don't want to attempt at descriptions as I would probably mangle them. But, I left the meeting wanting to get each one of them to read, so I feel good suggesting them.