[books: the island of lost maps, a home at the end of the world]

[minervacat]

I wish I could afford to buy all the books I want to read. Alas, I cannot buy more books until I get paid again in two weeks.

Comments

[flowery_twat]

I sat in the North/Clybourn red line stop and wept.

And you wept a very little for joy as well as in sorrow didn't you? Sadness as much for the possibilites as for the inevitabilities. That book hits so many buttons for me - the beginning of the disease (GRID!), the reconfiguration of family, New York pre-sanitization...

So glad you loved it.

*steals you away from work*

[minervacat]

Oh, yes, there was very much joy in my weeping. It wasn't even weeping in sorrow, really; by the time I got to the end, I was just so overwhelmed by everything that had happened, that I had to break down and cry about it. It was the best sort of weep - infused with all sorts of emotions.

That book hits so many buttons for me - the beginning of the disease (GRID!), the reconfiguration of family, New York pre-sanitization...
If you haven't, you should read Peg Kerr's The Wild Swans; it's young adult fiction, but it hit a lot of the same buttons for me as Home At The End, and it was marvelously well done, in my opinion.

*clings to you*

[magicasylum]

I just finished that about two weeks ago, and I had a similar reaction to yours. I can't really put my finger on it, but there was something about it that just hit me. It was so tormented and beautiful. And although I wasn't ecstatic about the end, I knew why she did what she did.

And also, I do NOT see Colin Farrel as Bobby. WTF? I mean, he's hot, and I LONG for the DVD version of the naked, rubbing ice-on-each-other on the rooftop scene, but still...

[minervacat]

I'm reserving judgement until I actually see the film, but flowery_twat, who flat-out adored the book, said that the movie was quite true to the feeling of the book and it worked very well, so I'm hopeful. Unlike you, I definitely could see him in my head as I read Bobby, so we'll see.

[magicasylum]

See, I can't see him as Bobby because of the way he kept describing his body type. Not fat, exactly, but not lean. A sort of teddy-bear like body type. I just don't see that in Colin!

But I'm very excited to see it - I thought it was out here already, but I guess it was a limited engagement LA/NY thing. Want it here now!