'Touched'
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."
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.
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)
I love the books, I have some issues with the most recent one, but it's a great series.
I'm reading a biography about Anne Bradstreet and it has me interested in Puritans. Can anyone recommend books about Puritans?
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.
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.
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.
Hey, that makes me think: right now, I'm on a serious bio kick.
Um, Savage Beauty about Millay, Zelda, Frida, A Beautiful Mind, and I guess, Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Anyone have any recs for good bios?
I very much enjoyed Chandler, by the hilariously-named Tom Hiney. He spends several pages decoding the phrase "like spats at an Iowa picnic," to explain the layers of meaning. Also, I just like Chandler.
Hey, I've just found out I'm going to be having dinner with Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner tomorrow night. I've never read anything by them, but I know that people here like them. So I'm sort of vicariously excited.