I think I've read 15, maybe 20 if you include "started and subsequently abandoned." I'm terribly weak on 20th-century fiction, and worse on 21st.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
JZ - Sep 26, 2008 7:11:53 am PDT #7528 of 28626
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2008 7:12:47 am PDT #7529 of 28626
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If you have not read Fun Home, I highly recommend it, whatever your gender.
sumi - Sep 26, 2008 7:13:28 am PDT #7530 of 28626
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I included the Shirley Jackson among those I have read - even though I may have only read "The Lottery."
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2008 7:18:45 am PDT #7531 of 28626
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I've read 31, but there are about 20 more that I am not sure if I actually read, or just know a lot about them.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2008 7:19:42 am PDT #7532 of 28626
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, then I'm at, like, 12.1.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2008 7:22:27 am PDT #7533 of 28626
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My mind is sort of boggling that there are that many books on a single list that I am unsure if I read. I did read MANY books in college, and as I was an English major who took classes in mainly 19th and 20th century lit and women's literature, I have at least been exposed to almost every single title.
Scrappy - Sep 26, 2008 7:26:38 am PDT #7534 of 28626
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I read 24 or so. I think Atwood's Cat's Eye should defintely be on there and it isn't so I am rounding myself up to 25.
sj - Sep 26, 2008 7:29:19 am PDT #7535 of 28626
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've read somewhere between 15-20 of them. I'm not sure if I finished all of them. I have quite a few more unread on my shelves. Many of the ones I read were for class.
JZ - Sep 26, 2008 7:30:24 am PDT #7536 of 28626
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Fun Home was indeed awesome, in a completely gutting and heartbreaking sort of way.
Sue - Sep 26, 2008 7:32:05 am PDT #7537 of 28626
hip deep in pie
I don't know, that list is another one of those, let's take a representative selection from each woman writer, throw in a few men writing about women, and call it an essential list. It's irritating me. Also why include any men, there's lots of women authors missing from that list.