I also hated The Awakening.
I don't think I liked Beloved, but I do love Macbeth and The Handmaid's Tale.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 7:31:34 am PST #10443 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 7:45:02 am PST #10444 of 28769
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I hated My Antonia.
What?! Quit having wrong opinions.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 7:48:28 am PST #10445 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bored the crap out of me, man.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2009 7:51:20 am PST #10446 of 28769
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bored the crap out of me, man.
But it's got plows and dried mushrooms and immigrant girls! I fail to see what's boring about that.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 8:01:03 am PST #10447 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh man, I must have totally missed the dried mushrooms. I feel so deprived of an engaging reading experience.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 02, 2009 8:04:26 am PST #10448 of 28769
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I loved My Antonia. I liked The Awakening but for some reason totally missed the part where she kills herself at the end. I thought she was going for a refrshing swim.
Steph L. - Dec 02, 2009 8:29:05 am PST #10449 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
T-Rex fixes great works of fiction: [link]
T-Rex *almost* makes me want to re-read Moby Dick.
ALMOST.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 8:34:46 am PST #10450 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha, Sophia. That's basically ALL I remember about The Awakening.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2009 8:40:26 am PST #10451 of 28769
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I liked it, but admittedly, not a page-turner. But that's probably what my great-grandma was kind of like, even though we don't come from Bohemia but a part of Germany that was often Poland.
sj - Dec 02, 2009 9:29:35 am PST #10452 of 28769
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I’d like every other book to be one I should have read but haven’t.
That is a great idea, Megan! I used to read mostly classics, but I have been feeling guilty about hardly reading any lately. I added the English version of the Cleves book to my wishlist (I don't read French). I had never heard of it before.