Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
:( Very, very sad. She was a genius.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Tam - Jul 08, 2004 5:53:00 pm PDT #4880 of 10002
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
JoeCrow - Jul 08, 2004 6:11:26 pm PDT #4881 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
I think at this point my wife and I have more books than apartment. I dream of being able to have them shelved one book deep. Also, of being able to shelve my comics, instead of marooning them in longboxes...
Of course, we'd need probably a whole other house to live in, then. But I'm comfortable with that.
Emlah - Jul 09, 2004 3:32:45 am PDT #4882 of 10002
To every idea a shelf...
THANK you, Joe. That is a wonderful, wonderful poem.
Seconded to the nth degree. Delicious.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2004 3:37:00 am PDT #4883 of 10002
What is even happening?
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
Oh no. Betsy, I saw your post the other day mentioning her heart problems. How old was she? :(
(I suddenly have the urge to eat pistachios)
msbelle - Jul 09, 2004 4:33:59 am PDT #4884 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The posts here today led me to culling some books off my cases as I moved them last night. Not much, but after moving all the bookcases this month I think I pulled a total of 10 books off. I think my shelves will clear out as I start reading more off the TBR shelves. Surely I like everything that is there.
And getting back in the habit of using my library has helped to slow the buying of more.
Steph L. - Jul 09, 2004 4:50:04 am PDT #4885 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Paula Danziger died today. No link; I don't know if it will make the newswires, but the news comes from somebody I trust.
Oh, no! God, I love her books!
(I suddenly have the urge to eat pistachios)
Heh. Me, too.
Angus G - Jul 09, 2004 4:56:31 am PDT #4886 of 10002
Roguish Laird
I feel sad about people not enjoying books too, but I imagine they also feel sad about me not enjoying mountain bike riding (or whatever), so it all evens out.
askye - Jul 09, 2004 4:58:32 am PDT #4887 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Last night I went over to Mom's and we culled the book closet she has. It's supposed to be a linen closet or soemthing but it's the only place to store books.
We pulled out a lot of books and I hated getting rid of some of them but I have no room or haven't read them, and I had to convince myself that just because something was a gift I'm not compelled to keep it.
At some point Mom got several boxes of books at a garage sale from a former English teacher so she has lots of classics and we found 3 copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and 4 of A Seperate Peace.
Jesse - Jul 09, 2004 5:02:04 am PDT #4888 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it's just fabulous. It's subtitled "A Memoir in Books," and it's basically about the author running a book club in Tehran after the Revolution. But it's also about her life, and the lives of the women in the class -- she was a professor, and the group is made up of her students, so it's really more private class than book club. It's also about the books, but about the way the books relate to her life, the lives of the other women, and Iran in general. Really good.
I actually tried to read Lolita in preparation, which turns out not to be necessary, but I was traveling and Lolita turned out not to be a good plane book for me, and then it was due back at the library. I couldn't concentrate on it at the time, but should give it another shot.
Steph L. - Jul 09, 2004 5:16:29 am PDT #4889 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
After my best friend hounded me for at least a year, I finally read Good in Bed. (I have a real grudge against "fat girl" books. What? Projection? Me?)
It wasn't the best writing in the world, and the author admits the heavily Mary-Sue-ing of her own life. (I despise the Mary Sue aspects of the book because they are SO over the top. Interview a hot Hollywood actress and become best friends with her? Sure! Give your screenplay to the actress and get it sold to be produced? You bet!)
However. It was sweet, and there were a lot of parts I liked. Overall, I liked the protagonist when she wasn't all Mary Sue-d. I didn't mind the "fat girl" aspects of it....much.