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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."
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.
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.
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.
Really? Latest steamy stuff I heard was metaphor stuff read by Susan Stanberg on Festival of Lights stuff.
Yeah, on All Things Considered they read an actual (but lacking in detail) lesbian love scene from one of the novels written about 60 or 70 years ago.