Lilah ,'Destiny'
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'm in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it's just fabulous.
My wife just finished that and has recommended it to most of her favorite people. She's never read any Nabokov, either, although I've given her the Cliff's Notes version of his style and plots.
The book is divided into quarters: Lolita, Gatsby, James, Austen. So lack of Nabokov isn't deadly.
I'm in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it's just fabulous.
My mom is reading it right now & loving it. I've just got to wait until dad gets it read and then it will be in my greedy hands!
Fuuny thing? She recently just read The Hemingway Bookclub of Kosovo and Bookseller of Kabul. It's like she's got a theme or something.
This was re-posted to a librarians' community on LJ this morning:
As you know, Paula Danziger, an icon in children's literature, died today, July 8, 2004 at 6:20 pm EST in New York. Hearts across America are grieving this premature loss. And there's not much we can do to ease the burn of it. But we can pay tribute.
SmartWriters.com has posted a Danziger Tribute page featuring an article, a booklist and -- with your help -- fond memories of the woman who touched so many lives, young and not so young. Go to Smartwriters.com and click on the button labeled "Danziger Tribute" to see the modest beginnings.
If you'd like to add to that page, please send your best Danziger moment to editor @ smartwriters.com. We'll get it posted with immediacy.
Of course, we'd need probably a whole other house to live in, then. But I'm comfortable with that.
That's how the Adams family did it. Not the Wednesday one, the John Quincey one. They had a lovely house over in Braintree, MA, and next to it is a two-story, stone building housing their library. It's delightful -- my folks had to drag me out of it. When I'm rich and famous I won't put all my money into fast cars and pool boys (well, maybe a bit for the latter), I'll put it into my personal library, building and all.
I love John Adams' library. I once did this exercise in which you put together pictures of the things you want to accomplish, and I included a picture of that library.
I have nine large (3-4 feet x 6 feet) bookcases. They do not hold all of my books. At least if I were addicted to cocaine, I wouldn't have to figure out a place to keep it.
Alas, I have not coffee on my monitor, but oatmeal.
I dream of a having real library with built-in shelves the way some people dream of Jaguars and diamonds.
I heart Ginger. IJS.
I enjoyed Good in Bed too, but it did turn into this bizarre wish-fulfillment thing about partway through. Still, the writing was fun and light (for most of it). I'm not hunting down the next one, though.
I enjoyed Good in Bed too, but it did turn into this bizarre wish-fulfillment thing about partway through.
Yup. I spent way too much time rolling my eyes.
Still, the writing was fun and light (for most of it). I'm not hunting down the next one, though.
My best friend has the next one, so I'll probably borrow it, but if she didn't, I wouldn't hunt it down, either.
The next one is better in some ways, actually. It's a little overly cute and a little too quickly resolved, but I thought the characters were more interesting and it's not as obviously a Mary Sue. And it has a fair amount of good shoes and clothes porn, which I often appreciate in my fluff.