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."
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:
Underhill
Happy 2004, Buffista Nation
eta: lets see if I can get these pesky links to work
Hey, grifter!
So far the Blind Assassin has moved me to "I am not worthy" ness.Makes it look easy, MA does.
So far the Blind Assassin has moved me to "I am not worthy" ness.
Blind Assassin is very good for inspiring those feelings.
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.
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.
deb, got the book today - thank you so much! I'm reading it again, of course.
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.
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.
The Boston Globe loves me!
Well, I know what my next book purchase will be.
Huh - I should check this thread more often.
I'd definitely go with Midnight's Children first, though I also really enjoyed The Satanic Verses.
I loooove
Midnight's Children
but didn't care for
Satanic Verses
all that much.
Reading one of erinaceous' Verbatim issues online I found the Russian word whose meaning I'd remembered but had forgotten the actual word.
I am reading the collection of essays that she edited right now - AIFG! It was on my Amazon wishlist which my sister actually checked before shopping for me: still amazed by that.
But what I really came in here for was to post this short but interesting article from today's NYTimes:
Pulp Fiction by Women with Protofeminist Roots
The article highlights some female-written pulp that has been reissued recently with more to come, apparently.
