The only Rushdie I've read was The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and I loved it. Must get around to Midnight's Children one of these days.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Jessica - Dec 30, 2003 4:09:13 am PST #371 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jess M. - Dec 30, 2003 4:43:58 am PST #372 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Jess M. "Sunnydale Press" Dec 3, 2003 10:58:42 am PST
Books still available if requested by ~1 on Friday. I ship!
high plains grifter - Dec 30, 2003 10:55:24 am PST #373 of 10002
At dinner I am getting earful.
Stopping in to report a brand new Gene Wolfe novel:
The Knight:Book One of the Wizard Knight
An excerpt : The Ruined Town
ita, I remember you said Wolfe's Latro books made your head hurt. Buy some aspirin, I foresee more headaches. As usual they're releasing the book in 2 parts. Curse the publisher. Then later, they'll reprint the combined portions with a new title, and I'll probably have to be prevented by kindly friends from buying it again. Curse the publisher twice.
Finally, here's one of Wolfe's complete short stories to whet your appetite:
Happy 2004, Buffista Nation
eta: lets see if I can get these pesky links to work
erikaj - Dec 30, 2003 1:19:00 pm PST #374 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Hey, grifter! So far the Blind Assassin has moved me to "I am not worthy" ness.Makes it look easy, MA does.
sj - Dec 30, 2003 1:26:47 pm PST #375 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
So far the Blind Assassin has moved me to "I am not worthy" ness.
Blind Assassin is very good for inspiring those feelings.
Susan W. - Dec 30, 2003 7:57:25 pm PST #376 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Read The Weaver and the Factory Maid on the plane back to Seattle tonight, and it's excellent. Deb, I really envy your way with evocative descriptive details! I'm too groggy just now to give a real review, but I enjoyed it, found it difficult to categorize (something I enjoy in a book, though in other moods I can equally enjoy a book for being a classic example of its genre), and look forward to the rest of the series.
msbelle - Dec 31, 2003 11:45:18 am PST #377 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I finished Cold Mountain last night. I liked it, but found myself rushing to get to the end and then why with the sad? I knew it was coming, I could see it coming. ugh. sad.
Middlesex is next for book club so I need to start that soon, but I am gonna try to sneak in Tell me Lies before I get Middlesex on Sunday.
Volans - Dec 31, 2003 1:27:45 pm PST #378 of 10002
move out and draw fire
deb, got the book today - thank you so much! I'm reading it again, of course.
DavidS - Dec 31, 2003 2:25:13 pm PST #379 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aha! Reading one of erinaceous' Verbatim issues online I found the Russian word whose meaning I'd remembered but had forgotten the actual word.
"Razbliuto" - the feeling a person has for someone that he or she once loved but now does not.
Also, intriguing (these are from a review of They Have A Word For It) is the Japanese word...
"wabi" - a flawed detail which creates an elegant whole.
Java cat - Dec 31, 2003 4:02:10 pm PST #380 of 10002
Not javachik
Wabi is a popular design aesthetic right now, or so according to my neighbor who's been tearing out tony architecture/design articles on it and giving them to me. Pointed, much? I don't mind - I hate my house, it's nice to think that it's really wabi, and not just a sty.
I started a list of books I'd read in 2003 a la Beth back a ways, but not finished it.
And ITA re CM, msbelle. My books-on-tape-listening co-worker was furious.