'Just Rewards (2)'
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 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*
*beams right back*
Brat Farrar
Another Tey fan! My sister!
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)
Ben AFFLECK?
the FUCK? What's the matter, Gwynneth Paltrow wasn't available???
Jebus.
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."
heh. i felt the same way, jesse!
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.
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.
I brave the scorn to say I really enjoyed the hell out of Carey's books. But I also read superfast, so boring parts aren't frustrating to me. But I really wasn't bored by a lot and I love the long multi-volume books, because they take me longer than a couple of hours to read. I thought they were fun.
Betsy, I read the new LKH on the plane, and I was also pleasantly surprised that it had a plot. It was perfect plane reading; interesting enough to make the time go by, but not so engrossing that I resented talking to my friend on and off. But you're right, Superpowers abound, and didn't it crack you up that at the end of the book, Merry has SIXTEEN supernatural studs sleeping with her?! My GOD! I mean, go sex, choose sex, but OUCH!