Friday, November 27, 2009
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Can't possibly be as fun as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but check out the trailer for the book!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Holiday Read
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Holidays are coming! We'll have spare time! How about something thick and challenging? War and Peace? Infinite Jest? No? How about one of these:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Somebody Else
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Polls close Wednesday at 5
Holidays are coming! We'll have spare time! How about something thick and challenging? War and Peace? Infinite Jest? No? How about one of these:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Somebody Else
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Polls close Wednesday at 5
Monday, September 14, 2009
What, no votes?
Some people have voiced an interest in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. On sale now at Costco. Available in Paperback.
I'm adding it to the list:
I'm adding it to the list:
Sunday, September 13, 2009
No witty title.
Got an opinion? Then here are our choices for the next great read. Polls close Monday at 5pm
Theo Gray's Mad Science.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This one could come with a November movie night!!!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Theo Gray's Mad Science.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This one could come with a November movie night!!!
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
New Lorrie Moore Novel: A Gate at the Stairs
Check out the review in Newsweek.
"Is there a point beyond which a fiction writer is merely punishing his or her readers? We pay lip service to the idea that we learn from novels and stories, that they have life lessons to teach us. Some do, but most of the time, the bargain we strike with fiction is much humbler: is the payoff worth the pain? Is what we take from a story or novel commensurate with or, if we're lucky, greater than what it takes out of us? Moore delivers a lot in this hard-knocks coming-of-age novel. But making the acquaintance of the unforgettable Tassie is such an exhausting, punishing experience that you finish the book wondering if it was worth the trouble."
Doesn't it make you want to give her another try?
How about this from the Chronicle?
"Is there a point beyond which a fiction writer is merely punishing his or her readers? We pay lip service to the idea that we learn from novels and stories, that they have life lessons to teach us. Some do, but most of the time, the bargain we strike with fiction is much humbler: is the payoff worth the pain? Is what we take from a story or novel commensurate with or, if we're lucky, greater than what it takes out of us? Moore delivers a lot in this hard-knocks coming-of-age novel. But making the acquaintance of the unforgettable Tassie is such an exhausting, punishing experience that you finish the book wondering if it was worth the trouble."
Doesn't it make you want to give her another try?
How about this from the Chronicle?
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