Okay, if it ends, I can try. After Norrell/Strange, and perhaps after Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction which I also started, but am creeped out by a bit. We've always been around the same age, but it's much less cute now.
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2005 7:54:44 am PST #9592 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Nov 28, 2005 11:05:16 am PST #9593 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
There's another Adrian Mole book?!?
Wait. Maybe I already knew that, and forgot.
meara - Nov 28, 2005 3:29:35 pm PST #9594 of 10002
Over the weekend I ended up with a cheapo copy of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander". Enjoyed it, mostly--the other books are ginormous, man--are they worth it? It seems like the kind of thing that could easily get overwrought and ridiculous in, y'know, four more 800 page books, or whatever.
Amy - Nov 28, 2005 4:11:21 pm PST #9595 of 10002
Because books.
Enjoyed it, mostly--the other books are ginormous, man--are they worth it?
The next two, in my opinion, were worth every page -- that's Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager -- but I lost interest a little bit after that. The beginning of Voyager is so, so, soooo wonderful.
Yet, I adore Claire and Jamie, and I actually borrowed by mom's copy of Drums of Autumn (the fourth book) over the weekend to try again.
meara - Nov 28, 2005 4:17:21 pm PST #9596 of 10002
Excellent, thanks AmyLiz! I'm flying to Denver tomorrow, so I'll stop by the B&N and pick up the next one to read on the plane. (If it was crappy, I'd probably wait until I could hit the used bookstore, and see if I wanted to pick it up)
askye - Nov 28, 2005 4:32:05 pm PST #9597 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I love the books, I have some issues with the most recent one, but it's a great series.
askye - Nov 29, 2005 4:56:22 am PST #9598 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I'm reading a biography about Anne Bradstreet and it has me interested in Puritans. Can anyone recommend books about Puritans?
ChiKat - Nov 29, 2005 5:11:49 am PST #9599 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
On Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. He was the governor of Plymouth and he wrote an account of life there. Some if it is kinda dry, but other parts are pretty great. He's very detailed in his depictions and tells the good with the bad.
Fred Pete - Nov 29, 2005 5:12:01 am PST #9600 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
askye, you might want to check out some of the works of Edmund Morgan. I read his biography of John Winthrop, The Puritan Dilemma, in college and remember it fondly.
askye - Nov 29, 2005 9:33:56 am PST #9601 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Thanks for the recommendations! The library doesn't have any of those, but they have two books by Edmund Morgan. I'll have to start requesting things through ILL.