I read Ibid: A Life, by Mark Dunn, over the holidays. It was interesting, structurally, but the same things that made it interesting kept me from falling into it. I'm glad I read it.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
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."
Calli - Dec 28, 2005 6:07:23 am PST #9692 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kathy A - Dec 28, 2005 7:33:11 am PST #9693 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Please, no matter how much you miss the boy, let the series end.
ITA. Although, I wouldn't mind if she'd follow up on a half-baked thought she had during one of her interviews that, after Book 7, she might do an Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and flesh out all the backstory that she was unable to shoehorn into the books.
Connie Neil - Dec 28, 2005 7:34:56 am PST #9694 of 10002
brillig
Like what happened to Harry's grand-parents, etc. Heck, she could do oodles of stuff with the Founders.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 28, 2005 7:40:12 am PST #9695 of 10002
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'm almost tempted to suggest that she should write a prequel series-- either with Hogwary's Founders, or MWP&P-- but then I wonder if we mightn't end up with midiclorians something dire, and I come back round to the saying she should let it end.
Kathy A - Dec 28, 2005 7:46:19 am PST #9696 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's what I like about the encyclopedia approach--she'll be able to present the details that she's worked on for over a decade now without having to pull it together with a connecting plot.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2005 9:02:15 am PST #9697 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
an Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and flesh out all the backstory that she was unable to shoehorn into the books.
That would be very neat. Like LotR's appendices.
meara - Dec 28, 2005 2:40:41 pm PST #9698 of 10002
My favorite part of this holiday: going to the day-after-Christmas sales, and finding that the bookstore in the mall was going out of business and everything was half off! So I bought as many books as I thought I could fit in my luggage (10, only...two?...of which I've read before. But I've read...4 more, now)
DavidS - Dec 28, 2005 3:34:47 pm PST #9699 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and finding that the bookstore in the mall was going out of business and everything was half off!
Was it a WaldenBooks? Because the nearby one is doing the same thing. I almost cried when I saw three Calvin & Hobbes collected works at half price.
Almare - Dec 28, 2005 3:39:59 pm PST #9700 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "
I wish they would do that down here. There is a hardcover collection of the first year of "Runaways" that I am mooning over.
Typo Boy - Dec 28, 2005 3:49:08 pm PST #9701 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
B. Dalton down in my neck of the woods did that also.