well, maybe gave is the wrong word. But I was never forbidden to read anything in the house, and they had these shiny covers....
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'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."
Jess M. - Jul 19, 2004 1:00:23 pm PDT #5210 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
askye - Jul 19, 2004 3:09:30 pm PDT #5211 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
When I was somewhere between 7th and 9th grade I read a few Amanda Quick books that were Mom's. I don't think she gave them to me so much as I picked them up and started reading.
I remember being very annoyed with her use of the phrase "all of a sudden".
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 9:21:57 pm PDT #5212 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
Gotta love the...presence of an ellipsis...in a post about...Barbara...and her breathless little...heroines.
Consuela - Jul 19, 2004 9:23:50 pm PDT #5213 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm 2/3 of the way through Set This House in Order, and now I understand why it won the Tiptree. Heh.
Sneaky.
msbelle - Jul 20, 2004 4:35:51 am PDT #5214 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. Finally at the end, stuff happens. The lack of action through the book didn't really bother me so much. The charcters are are well developed or well described at least. One thing I really liked about it was how the narrative seamlessly moves from one time and place to another time and place and it was never jarring to me. I wonder if that was just me. My bookclub discusses it on Wednesday, so I will find out.
lisah - Jul 20, 2004 5:47:19 am PDT #5215 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday. Finally! The book was assigned months ago. I'm going to have to review all the notes I took while reading it. (Mostly consisting of "Huh?!" and "EW")
Jesse - Jul 20, 2004 6:11:08 am PDT #5216 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
Ditto and ditto. I wondered why I couldn't remember anything about the book, and then I saw the bookmark I left, a couple of chapters in. Oops.
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 7:20:39 am PDT #5217 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday.
SUH-WEET! I want to start an all VC Andrews bookclub.
t runs to B'cry
t just kidding
erikaj - Jul 20, 2004 8:37:12 am PDT #5218 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
BWAH!!!
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2004 8:38:09 am PDT #5219 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Deconstructing Incest and Other Fucked-Up Shit: The V.C. Andrews Bookclub Thread."