But then I'd feel bad.
Yeah. Sort of like, "I could totally kick Nelson Mandela's ass."
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
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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."
DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 10:26:41 am PST #278 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat - Dec 19, 2003 10:29:15 am PST #279 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Actually the Haruf-Plainsong is also not really a kid's book at all. It's about a 17-year-old girl who is pregnant and stumbles into two bachelor brothers' lives.
It is similar to another book that is YA, but not children's set in Winnipeg (Confessions of a Heartless Girl) which is similar in it's sparseness and it's plot and it's sort of melodic prose.
Haruf's Plainsong is great to be teamed with Peace Like A River in that they are both so Plains-States in the best way possible.
It's a really amazing book but not for meant or written for children.
Strix - Dec 19, 2003 10:50:00 am PST #280 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Outted as a skipper.
How nautical of me.
Vortex - Dec 19, 2003 11:01:28 am PST #281 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think you could probably out-Vortex Nilly too, if you had a mind.
Not bloody likely :)
DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 11:23:35 am PST #282 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not bloody likely :)
I didn't say she could out-Vortex Vortex. That's not even possible.
deborah grabien - Dec 19, 2003 11:29:16 am PST #283 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
Oh dear God, tell me they aren't making that mistake. Please? Because I don't want a bunch of fundie mommies chasing me with meat-axes, OK?
It is very definitively NOT a children's book. Nor is Kent Haruf's book of the same title, which is a big sprawly beach blanket read about a family who lives on the Great Plains.
Erin, please make them correct it. Please? I beg of you?
DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 1:03:00 pm PST #284 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kate P. - Dec 19, 2003 5:16:22 pm PST #285 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ooh, I'm actually reading that Le Guin translation (or was, before RotK ate my brain). It's very good. There's not much plot to the individual stories, but the setting is fantastic. Good bedtime reading.
Volans - Dec 21, 2003 9:01:30 am PST #286 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Faulkner Fox is a cool name.
I'm trying to find books we know and love in translation, to practice reading in other languages. Any idea how to harness the power of the Internet to do this? Often when I'm travelling I will pick up The Hobbit in Spanish, or Dune in Romanian, etc. But I'd like to find books in Greek this year, before we go to Greece. Children's books would be best. (In fact, The Hobbit would be great.)
I've found Cat in the Hat, Winnie the Pooh, and Harry Potter in Latin, but no luck with modern Greek.
Consuela - Dec 22, 2003 11:26:52 am PST #287 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix