'Out Of Gas'
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."
Well, that was only partly successful. I went to the Ferry Building instead, because there's a Book Passage there, but they were out. Out!
So instead I bought a very tasty quesadilla at the new gourmet Mexican place and came back to eat it at my desk while reading "Lust Over Pendle". (Which I am, btw, enjoying immensely. The narrative voice is quite enchanting.)
I just finished The Murder Stone by Charles Todd. Wow. Very good. Not what I expected (thought it was a mystery and spent much time looking for clues and trying to figure it out). But a really well written WWI-era book. It simultaneously reminded me of The Wars, by Timothy Findley and Mary Stewart's non-Arthurian stuff. Strong female protagonist without her being un-believeable.
I also finished The Lavender Butterfly Murders by Sharon Duncan this weekend. It was a good, solid, enjoyable mystery. I really liked the detective. The only problem I had with it was that one of the big clues is the title, although some may miss the bit that makes it a clue.
Because I must be contrary to all you say:
I really liked The Shipping News, once I got over my irritation at her choppy writing style.
I tried reading Sophie's World twice, but finally gave up.
(stands next to Alicia in TSN corner). I enjoyed this book though I found the style jarringly choppy. Worldview bleak, hero whiny and lost. Newfoundland interesting; features fried baloney.
I want to go buy Jonathan Strange RIGHT NOW. Now now now! However, I don't have spending money for it RIGHT NOW, and I'm going to try and hold off until early October so I can read it on the plane when we go to Vienna.
But I still want to read it right now.
I'm over in the Teppy, P-C, Anne W., etc corner about TSN. Took a couple running jumps at it, wanted the main character to kill himself by page 10.
I'm slogging through Walden again, since it's the 150th anniv. and all. This time it's making me laugh (Thoreau is such an odd duck, and a helluva curmudgeon who can turn a phrase) and cry (so much hasn't changed, and so much has worsened).
I'm slogging through Walden again, since it's the 150th anniv. and all. This time it's making me laugh (Thoreau is such an odd duck, and a helluva curmudgeon who can turn a phrase) and cry (so much hasn't changed, and so much has worsened).
Ohhh. I think I'll cheat though and read "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail" I'm reading for the Book Club, one on my own which is a collection of essays called "The Muse is Always Half-Naked in New Orleans," and I'm not sure I can handle another heavy-weight.
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
jostles with ita and Ple to get to the front of the line...
Hey, Andrej Codrescu (spelled wrong, I'm sure) is fun to read.
Speaking of which, I opened a page of Brave New World online for my daughter to see and wound up reading the whole thing right then and there. Compelling little piece of propaganda, that.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)