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     Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 826 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, Right now I'm in the middle of a blizzard in the Winter Wonderland. As you know, I've been going through the books in my library and started running across all of the books that I had gotten in past BEAs that I had not read. Ironically, some of the books were turned into movies, so I was kicking myself that I had a copy of the book all this time and hadn't read it. When I finished Passing Strange, which I HATED, I picked up Willa Cather's My Antonia (very good read) and that was the start of my current Winter Wonderland. I'm in the middle of a book titled The Heart of Horses by Molly Glass, a good book BTW, perfect for my nieces. I'm going to start the Twilight series. I understand that it had been getting mixed reviews, the books not the movie. Since I love vampires, I'm going to check it out. I'm also going to continue this wonderful series that I was introduced to at a past BEA, The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. I loved the first book. I did not know that it had became a series. What is curious to me is that series that I love, like The Last Apprentice and the Artemis Fowl books, are written for children. How come I didn't have books like these when I was coming up? Now that the Harry Potter books have come to an end, maybe some of these other wonderful children series can get some attention. | ||
| Crystal Veteran Poster Username: Crystal Post Number: 485 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello Thumper. I’m still traveling. Spent time in Cairo with The View From Garden City by Carolyn Baugh – interesting group of tales of women’s lives. Went to India with The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan – I love a family epic. I just left Russia with Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov – more proof that dysfunctional families are found in all times and places. But when I got home yesterday The Book of Night Women and The Long Fall were waiting for me so I’m getting back on the bus. Re: the BEA – my one and only time going I came home with 2 big bags full of books and the only one I liked was Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. All the rest I would never have bought and most I didn’t even try to finish reading. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13606 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
I wish I could come out of the morgue and get interested in something other than true crime books about murder and cold cases and fatally-attracted rejected lovers and serial killers and beneficiaries of million-dollar insurance policies taken out on slain spouses. I especially like the descriptions of decomposing bodies found in remote areas. I'm ashamed of myself. | ||
| Always_lurking Regular Poster Username: Always_lurking Post Number: 70 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
LOL @ Cynique. Your crime novels to my romance novels. www.parlezentertainment.com | ||
| Always_lurking Regular Poster Username: Always_lurking Post Number: 71 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
Troy, I just purchased Twilight. I have no idea when I am going to read it but I refuse to watch the movie until I do. I might have to wait until next year though ... after nursing school. Sad and pathetic. lol BTW, did you give up on Vampire Huntress series? I thought you had issues with it. I could not get pass book 4 because I was only reading for Carlos and I thought that was a good place to stop; although LA Banks did promise me that he gets better. But of course she would say that  . I got a chance to meet her a while back and she was real nice and real down to earth. I think I will pick it up again just because she was so cool. www.parlezentertainment.com | ||
| Always_lurking Regular Poster Username: Always_lurking Post Number: 72 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
Sorry, I meant Thumper. LOL. Not having the best of weeks. | ||
| Steve_s Veteran Poster Username: Steve_s Post Number: 440 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: |
I attended Zorafest today, the premiere of the film "That's Livin'!", a documentary with dramatizations from the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Karen Stephens does a great job in the film, however, she is young and they don't even attempt to make her look older at the end, which is probably wise. Lucy Anne Hurston on the other hand, although she's probably not an actress, wowed the audience when came out before the showing dressed in period costume in character as Zora. She and some others authors including Valerie Boyd were there, but I didn't attend any of the book discussions that took place earlier in the day because I had a 5K race at 7:30 this morning that was about an hour's drive away. It's the driving back afterwards that's always drag because your hamstrings are tight and your right leg is cramped into position on the accelerator pedal. I've been reading a lot but I haven't finished many books. On another note, I listened to these book critics discuss topics like how so many of the great American novels of the past (like Invisible Man and others) were "forward-looking" or at least dealt with contemporaneous events, and not "retrospective" like so many novels today. They also seem to agree that the Baby Boom Generation (c. 1946-1964) of Americans did not produce a "great" novelist. http://www.radioopensource.org/the-great-american-novel/ |
