Anya ,'Get It Done'
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 found out today why I haven't been able to buy a copy of Howl's Moving Castle since we saw the movie. It's been sold out for the last month. The publisher cancelled a special movie tie-in cover because they didn't think the movie would generate much interest. So...while the movie is in the theaters, you can't buy a copy of the book.
So. Fucking. Stupid.
Hec,
Huh. well, now I'm glad I got the SF Book Club 2-in-1 edition with that and "Castle in the Air"
And in Harry Potter news, apparently the con I'm going to has "HP&THBP goes on sale" as a scheduled item.(Midnight Friday. Why then? I dunno)
I dreamt last night that they made Harry Potter into a stage musical, and it actually was pretty good.
This book [link] is going to be my next purchase, although the comparisons to "Da Vinci Code" turn me off. But it looks like that's just publisher-hype.
Raquel, have you read any of Gerald Durrell's books? He lived in Corfu for about five years in the 1930s and has some great tales about growing up as an ex-pat among the Greeks. I recently finished the Durrell biography by Douglas Botting, and the differences between Durrell's account of events and Botting's are fascinating.
"My family, and other animals" is a great book. (Not sure if that's one of the Corfu books you meant, dcp, but that's what came to mind)
I love Gerald Durrell's books, particularly My Family and Other Animals. Do you recommend the biography?
I haven't, dcp, but I just checked at Amazon and bought a couple used. They sound great! Sadly, I'm sure they will make me obscenely jealous, as Corfu! And the Greece of 2005 is not at all the Greece of 1999, let alone 1930.
I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife.
Wow.
I loved it.
That is all.
My Family and Other Animals is definitely the one to start with. The other two "Corfu" books are Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Garden of the Gods. Beasts in My Belfry is early post-war England, and then the first animal collecting expedition book is The Overloaded Ark.
The rest of the books can be read in pretty much any order, except that The Bafut Beagles should come before A Zoo In My Luggage, because the latter is about a return expedition to Bafut.
Ginger, I liked the biography a lot. It is very thorough without being tedious. It's amazing just how much stuff was going on in Durrell's life that didn't make it into his many books.
David that publisher is an idiot!!!
My HP is "shipping soon".