Snerk.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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."
Katerina Bee - Jun 15, 2004 7:04:41 am PDT #3255 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
hun_e - Jun 15, 2004 11:15:51 am PDT #3256 of 10002
Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice...
RE: Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding. Just finished it. Here are my recommendations if you wish to enjoy this book:
1. Read on beach, patio or similar sunny spot, preferably with large, fruity, alcoholic beverage.
2a. Pretend it wasn't written by Helen Fielding. If not possible,
2b. Try to forget you've ever heard of Bridget Jones, or her diaries.
3. Someone mentioned Mary Sue, I believe, in relation to this book. If you have feelings of hatred towards her, forget above and skip the book.
sj - Jun 15, 2004 8:02:59 pm PDT #3257 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
2b. Try to forget you've ever heard of Bridget Jones, or her diaries.
I am trying to do this as I read the book. There are some glimmers of goodness, but for the most part it is a real dissapointment. Nothing at all like either of the Bridget Jones novels.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2004 4:03:05 am PDT #3258 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I picked up Welcome To Temptation. I needed to go to sleep early, what with the 5:15 wakeup time this morning.
Not until I finished it. It was funny and hot, and I'll be damned -- now that I remember that feeling, I can walk easily away from the two books that are pissing me off/boring me right now.
I just need another book -- my sister mentioned James Baldwin, so maybe I'll hunt him down.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2004 4:05:37 am PDT #3259 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm in the middle of Anonymous Rex, and enjoying it. My main issue is that I can't figure out how a dino could function in a human suit -- the proportions would be all wrong! But then I start wondering about millions of years of evolution, etc. I figure if that's what I'm nitpicking, he's done a pretty good job of making me buy into the whole concept.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 4:18:50 am PDT #3260 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cool, cool. That book has intrigued me; I've wanted to read it for some time. I've been a dinosaur freak since I was a kid.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2004 4:26:36 am PDT #3261 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's very funny, all the alternate/hidden world stuff. But at its core, it's a detective story.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 4:30:34 am PDT #3262 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ain't nothing wrong with that. I had an Agatha Christie phase back in the day, too.
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2004 4:49:14 am PDT #3263 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Happy Bloomsday!
beth b - Jun 16, 2004 6:03:20 am PDT #3264 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Just finished City of Masks by Daniel Hecht. Deb mentioned the 2nd book in the series upthread. It has been a long time since I have wanted to read everythign by an anuthor NOW. Cree Black is our main character , but I think what drove the story was the fact that I was introduced to all the characters and know some of them better than I know Cree. Somehow learning about each person solved the ghost story/mystery. Really a rich book. Hard to put down, not because I needed to know what happened next, but because I fell so hard into the world of the book.