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.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.