Dani, what do you think of The Reader? I really enjoyed it when I read it.
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
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."
sj - Feb 12, 2004 5:47:03 pm PST #772 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Micole - Feb 12, 2004 6:26:16 pm PST #773 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I adore If I Were You, and I don't think I've talked to more than one person before who'd even heard of it. It was the first of Aiken's romances I read, and I wasn't at all prepared for what she'd do to the conventions.
*beams at Scrappy and Dani, full of genial book-love*
scrappy - Feb 12, 2004 6:59:02 pm PST #774 of 10002
Nobody
*beams right back*
deborah grabien - Feb 12, 2004 8:24:37 pm PST #775 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Brat Farrar
Another Tey fan! My sister!
flea - Feb 13, 2004 2:58:16 am PST #776 of 10002
information libertarian
Deb, do not panic, but the other day in Movies sumi announced that they are making a movie of Brat Farrar. With - wait for it - Ben Affleck as Brat.
(sits eagerly waiting for Deb's explosion)
deborah grabien - Feb 13, 2004 6:35:39 am PST #777 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Ben AFFLECK?
the FUCK? What's the matter, Gwynneth Paltrow wasn't available???
Jebus.
Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:47:02 am PST #778 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I'm reading this book The Dante Club, which is basically about Longfellow and them tracking down a serial killer who is taking inspiration from the Divine Comedy (apparently; I'm only half-way through). It's entertaining enough, in an RPF kind of way, but can I just say how confusing it is to be reading a mystery story with a main character named Holmes, but it's Oliver Wendell, not Sherlock? Very confusing. I keep thinking, "Wait! Holmes isn't short -- oh, right. Wendell. Short. Got it."
Vortex - Feb 13, 2004 7:56:15 am PST #779 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
heh. i felt the same way, jesse!
Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:59:36 am PST #780 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm also bitter that the author is younger than me, but I guess that just means it's time to realize that I'm not too young to have accomplished anything significant.
Java cat - Feb 13, 2004 11:30:08 am PST #781 of 10002
Not javachik
I read a blurb in Cody's Books' newsletter and thought Buffistas would be interested in this: [link]
(dunno why it won't take you to the book, but it takes you to Cody's and you can search the title. Sorry)
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. As a leading neurologist at a major research hospital, Flaherty writes from the front lines of brain research.