Has anyone read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell? I read it last night. It started supeeeeeerrrrr slow, but then I got kinda into it, but I thought the ending was lame.
Thoughts?
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Strix - Jan 13, 2005 2:40:41 pm PST #6856 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Wolfram - Jan 13, 2005 3:11:47 pm PST #6857 of 10002
Visilurking
Would it be terribly restrictive if you guys whitefonted any major spoilers in JS&MN? I'm on the waiting list for it at the library, but if it's inconvenient I'll happily unsub for a few weeks from the thread.
Strix - Jan 13, 2005 3:17:02 pm PST #6858 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
No problem on my end, Wolfram.
Wolfram - Jan 13, 2005 3:18:00 pm PST #6859 of 10002
Visilurking
Thanks Erin!
Strix - Jan 13, 2005 3:45:38 pm PST #6860 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I haven't read anything really GOOD in a while. It's so annoying. Just mediocre stuff, and I find my mind wandering.
I need recs. Or new writers. Something. Anything.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2005 3:48:21 pm PST #6861 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem. It has a little of everything.
Scrappy - Jan 13, 2005 4:00:41 pm PST #6862 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Polter-Cow - Jan 13, 2005 4:15:23 pm PST #6863 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Augusten Burroughs.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2005 4:21:41 pm PST #6864 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I've been meaning to read both Robin's and the Spectral Bovine's but have not gotten to either yet. And y'all know about my literary Pelecanos-crushing, if you're looking for a non-Grabien new mystery.(Funny to even think of them as writing in the same form. Cause they don't. Not really. And that's not a preference for one over the other...they are like pickles and ice cream. I love both, just not together.)
Kathy A - Jan 13, 2005 6:26:55 pm PST #6865 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A fun article about the founder of Bookslut.com. (Chicago Tribune, reg. required.) Loved this:
When writing about critic and novelist Dale Peck, Crispin called his work, "Not even bad enough to be trashy. I tried to read "The Law of Enclosures" until I noticed I was using the cover to try to saw through my wrist."
and this:
In publishing circles, the term "book slut" has circulated for years, says Perreault. It is used interchangeably with the expression "book whore," meaning "one who covets or hordes books," he says, but there's a subtle difference.
"A book whore wants something in return," Perreault says. "A book slut just loves books."