Has Anasi Boys been mentioned? I don't recall that it has. It should have been, though. Loved it.
Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?
Anya ,'Touched'
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."
DebetEsse - Jan 11, 2006 5:03:13 pm PST #9755 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Dana - Jan 11, 2006 5:44:37 pm PST #9756 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Consuela - Jan 11, 2006 5:56:04 pm PST #9757 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Jars - Jan 12, 2006 1:30:42 am PST #9758 of 10002
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.
Megan E. - Jan 12, 2006 2:09:55 am PST #9759 of 10002
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.
Anne W. - Jan 12, 2006 2:11:14 am PST #9760 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
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.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 4:00:28 am PST #9761 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Jars - Jan 12, 2006 4:03:27 am PST #9762 of 10002
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.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 4:05:04 am PST #9763 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't dislike The Algebraist, but it's really not dragging me along for the ride. I don't miss it the way I miss Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I think it needs more attention to do it justice, and I'm just...not. I will address that this weekend.
Calli - Jan 12, 2006 4:05:28 am PST #9764 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I recently finished Folly, by Laurie R. King. It's not part of her Sherlock and Russell series or her Kate Martinelli series, but I really liked it. It made me want to move to the San Juan islands. (Not that that's a hard sell for me.)