"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)
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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."
Sheryl - Jul 10, 2005 5:54:14 am PDT #8096 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Ginger - Jul 10, 2005 6:03:17 am PDT #8097 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love Gerald Durrell's books, particularly My Family and Other Animals. Do you recommend the biography?
Volans - Jul 10, 2005 7:08:19 am PDT #8098 of 10002
move out and draw fire
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.
Polter-Cow - Jul 10, 2005 12:09:50 pm PDT #8099 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife.
Wow.
I loved it.
That is all.
dcp - Jul 10, 2005 6:25:19 pm PDT #8100 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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.
sumi - Jul 11, 2005 7:20:33 am PDT #8101 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
David that publisher is an idiot!!!
My HP is "shipping soon".
Nutty - Jul 11, 2005 7:29:19 am PDT #8102 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So that Kate P. knows she is not alone, I bought a copy of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners over the weekend. I fully anticipate its being really cool and mind-bendy.
It does not include the story "Monsters," of which I have heard the first half and not the second half. That is forthcoming in September, in a McSweeney's collection for young adults, edited by Daniel Handler. The title is something impenetrably long, so long that Kelly could only wave her hands vaguely and recall that there was a "and this other thing we don't have a name for" at the end of it.
Kate P. - Jul 11, 2005 7:42:04 am PDT #8103 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hey, cool, I'll have to track down that McSweeney's collection. She's also got a story in another YA anthology that isn't in either of her collections: "Swans" in A Wolf at the Door (see her website).
sumi - Jul 11, 2005 8:27:42 am PDT #8104 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Michelle Trachtenberg is playing the main character in the Lifetime Movie of The Dive from Clausen's Pier. . . Sean Maher is playing Kilroy and Will Estes is playing Mike.
MT is in no way old enough to play Carrie, right?
-t - Jul 11, 2005 2:38:21 pm PDT #8105 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does anyone have any recommendations for books to give an 11 year old boy who likes Pratchett?