Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Um, maybe the men are supposed to have babies too? Never underestimate the demographic possibilities of MPREG.
I liked Ender's Game, but I'm personally of the opinion that there is a point in my education/growth after which I can't read it and respect it. That's the point at which I realized that Orson Scott Card doesn't know a single thing about developmental psychology.
I am Love in the Time of Cholera
You're Love in the Time of Cholera! by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff could get you killed.
um, whatev...
I'm 100 Years of Solitude.
"Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time. Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village."
I'm a Latin Drama Queen!
Well, changing an answer got me to:
You're Compassion Fatigue! by Susan Moeller
You used to care, but now it's just getting too difficult. You cared about the plight of people in lands near and far, but now the media has bombarded you with images of suffering to the point that you just don't have the energy to go on. You've become cold and heartless, as though you'd lived in New York City for a year or so. But you stand as a serious example to all others that they should turn off their TV sets and start caring again.
I was getting some scrap paper from an old notebook and came across a wordlist I made for bookclub. We were reading The Professor and The Madman in January of last year and while I enjoyed the book, I found myself reading over words that I really couldn't define if I had to, so I kept a list, and mostly looked them up. 141 total.
I got To Kill a Mockingbird.
Could be worse.
I'm in the middle of an old (re-released) Ed McBain book, The Pusher, and the thing that strikes me the most is that the only thing that dates it at all is prices. It's about cops (obviously) and junkies and hookers, but mostly about heroin. It's a little different from his "typical," I think -- there's a personal tie between one of the cops and the crime(s) -- and it's really good.
Oh, and when I say "old," I mean 1956.
I love McBain books. they hold up.
Yeah, they're always a good time. But you know what I'm saying? I mean, I always love (re)reading Rex Stout, but they feel much more dated, for whatever reason.
People don't write 'em like that anymore...McBain is like crime on prime time...personally I like both styles...duh. Hi, I'm Erika, have we met?