Tara ,'Get It Done'
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."
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman (a bit of a letdown--it's so short!)
Kate P, so it's another story? I've seen it at the store and picked it up several times with an intent to buy. but I was unclear on whether it was a companion edition or a novella or what. So I haven't.
Books received this Hannukah: William Dalrymple, White Mughals; Adrian LeBlanc Noble, Random Family; Niall Ferguson, The Rothschilds: Money's Prophets and The World's Banker.
I think this is my most nonfiction-heavy holiday list ever, which is what happens when you use your Amazon Wishlist as a general notepad and your mother ignores your instructions about Things You Want Most. Not that I'm complaining! I've been meaning to read more nonfiction anyway, and I probably never would have gotten round to these otherwise.
It's just that my dad is Mal
So, he's big on kicking guys out through exhaust fans and shooting government operatives in the head?
My husband got about 5 books about GWB and his administration (e.g., The Lies of George W. Bush). It seemed to be a big theme for non-fiction this holiday season.
Hee. Well, he has no history of either, that I know of.
More like there have been points in his life that I believe he endured past hope, somehow finding meaning in the small scale rather than the big meaningless picture.
He's a big damn hero, and he doesn't even realize he is.
t /ot nattering
I got The Handmade Candle, Natural Soapmaking, Wicked, Weaver, Sandman Book of Dreams, and Pretty Maids, the Buffy book about Spike and Dru.
Has anyone here read, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary," by Simon Winchester? (I imagine erinaceous has.)
My grandfather insists I read it immediately.
Oh, I want Deena's Christmas books! I got no books, but I do have a couple of gift coupons. I'm thinking the LotR Weapons and Warfare, and a long afternoon's perusal to help decide how to use up the rest of the coupon.
Deb, that was an awesome and well-deserved review!
Has anyone here read, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary," by Simon Winchester?
I haven't read it but I really want to. My mother got it for Christmas so hopefully she'll mail it to me after she and my sister read it.
That was a wonderful and well-deserved review.
My christmas books were Buffista gifties, Bev, so you can see why they'd be such the perfect choices.