Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
There's a new OEB? Hallelujah! And here I've got a Borders gift card burning a hole in my purse. I'm liking Elizabeth Lynn's "Dragon's Treasure," but I've always enjoyed her humanist almost-utopias.
I officially got a big kick out of "Olympos" by Dan Simmons. It made me want to go read some background on Greek mythology. Strangely I had no such desire to explore Proust or recall Shakespeare.
I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I started it in 2005. I'll probably finish it in 2007, at this rate. I do like it, though.
Has Anasi Boys been mentioned? I don't recall that it has. It should have been, though. Loved it.
I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I started it in 2005.
Ha. Me too. I brought it with me to London, almost finished it on the plane back, and then completely lost my momentum. Very Large Books are hard.
The way I read Jonathan Strange was by getting sick and staying home for two days. I read fast, and being home and offline for 2 days really gave me the time to get through it. I also thought it read pretty easily.
I think I read Johnathan Strange in about a week. I even tried to drag it out I was enjoying it so much. That and Anna Pavord's The Naming of Names were probably my favourites from last year.
I read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell in 2004 and enjoyed it muchly. I had a long layover at an airport and read about 200 pages in one gulp which I think helped to keep my attention. It was probably my favourite book that year. I don't think I have a favourite of 2005 - at least I can't think of anything right now.
Jonathan Strange had a few bits where I felt it bogged down (and I honestly can't remember where those were), but other than that, I enjoyed the book. I actually read it fairly slowly, and it felt as if I were inhabiting the book for a good two weeks or so. It's not often I can find a book that I can live in like that.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is my car book, so unless I haul it upstairs and have a long sitdown, it'll take a while. Of course, my inside book, The Algebraist isn't doing much better.
In non-fiction news (at which I'm much better), B&N just delivered Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, Castle, and Mosque by David Macaulay. The first two I remember lovingly from high school (I think I used one of them in a project), and Mosque is new and in colour. I can't wait to sit down with them and some tea.
ita, I've been reading The Algebraist for about four months now and am only a hundred or so pages in. I will finish it. Oh yes.