During an epileptic seizure while visiting her ancestral home, sixteen-year-old Katie is transported back in time and mistaken for her great-great-great grandmother who also had epilepsy at a time when the disease was greatly misunderstood.
Oh yay, I'm the first back with the answer about AmyLiz's book: Why Have The Birds Stopped Singing by Zoa Sherburne.
I recall she wrote some cool books. Better go rummage through what Amazon says.
Edit: I feel as though I should really like reading Annie Dillard, but my attention keeps wandering off track with her.
There will be more -- do I not need to send you Faking It, then?
Um, I was going to be rereading it.
His people aren't people...just action figures.
I had that feeling too, the whole time I was reading it! I kept thinking, "Don't they have family that would wonder where they are? Or, friends, even? A cat? Anything?"
I was going to be rereading it.
She's all yours.
Me, I'm currently reading Snow Crash and Abide With Me. So far, pretty dissimilar. I expect this trend to continue.
Wrod, ita.
I fricking hate reading a best-seller and thinking "I can do better."
So I went to Amazon and told them I would avoid his books like there's anthrax in the covers. Bitchy and satisfying.
I fricking hate reading a best-seller and thinking "I can do better." So I went to Amazon and told them I would avoid his books like there's anthrax in the covers. Bitchy and satisfying.
Woohoo!! I'm so sick of the book! Can we have a new best seller please, preferably something with an entertaining plot AND quality writing?
AmyLiz, my take on Dillard is that The Living is a mildly interesting novel, but Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is fascinating nonfiction if you are at all interested in bugs, plants, and other life.
Of course, it's been 20 and 30 years, respectively, since I read those books.
"Ma'am? You over there, with the cats on your lap? Do you have a candidate for bestseller? A series perhaps? To protect us from the next GrishamCrichton?"
Yay, Katerina Bee! My memory is clearly not what it once was (not that it was ever much).
The Living is a mildly interesting novel, but Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is fascinating nonfiction if you are at all interested in bugs, plants, and other life.
Isn't Pilgrim kind of about writing, too? Or am I thinking of some other work of hers? Either way, I figured you rarely go wrong picking up a hardcover for a dime. I'll give it a whirl at some point.
My DH (Stephen) read Angels and Demons because someone gave it to him, and he was wildly underwhelmed. He has no interest in DaVinci, and neither do I.
I second that wave, Deb. Hey, Weaver was all checked out in library system this week. See, even I've taken to checking for you! (And I'm still working on Matty, and thinking I'm going to start sending comments in installments or the thing will be on the bestseller list before you get them.)
