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.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
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."
Susan W. - Dec 30, 2003 7:57:25 pm PST #376 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
ted r - Dec 31, 2003 5:13:09 pm PST #381 of 10002
"You got twelve, and they got twelve. The old ladies are just as good as you are." -Dr. Einstein
The Boston Globe loves me!
Well, I know what my next book purchase will be.
tina f. - Jan 02, 2004 11:28:26 am PST #382 of 10002
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.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2004 1:44:07 pm PST #383 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The article highlights some female-written pulp that has been reissued recently with more to come, apparently.
This is been burbling among the queer study cognoscenti for a while and now has gotten a broader feminist slant.
I know a number of older dykes who still get a happy smile when you mention Beebo Brinker.
Maysa - Jan 02, 2004 4:32:19 pm PST #384 of 10002
The article highlights some female-written pulp that has been reissued recently with more to come, apparently.
The editor of this was on NPR a few weeks ago and they also had several actresses read a few choice passages. Pretty steamy stuff.
sarameg - Jan 02, 2004 5:03:18 pm PST #385 of 10002
Really? Latest steamy stuff I heard was metaphor stuff read by Susan Stanberg on Festival of Lights stuff.