My mother would say it's dogearing the pages (only in paperbacks) but since she was a spinebender, I don't feel like she has a leg to stand on.
This sentence speaks so deeply to me! :D I mean, I do not dogear pages, either, but I remember sitting in class one day in college and quite literally gasping in horror as one of my classmates deliberately bent her book all the way backwards to crack and warp the spine on purpose. That happened somewhere around 1995-1996, and I still can feel the trauma!
To my shame, while I loved A Wizard of Earthsea and have had a compilation of the first four books on my shelf for ages, I've never read any of the others. One day ...
Did your dislike of Wonderboys stretch to the film? I've not read the book but the film is a total favourite of mine, all the more because it was a random find.
Oh you really need to read the rest of Earthsea. Or at least Tombs of Atuan. It's SO GOOD.
I haven't watched the movie, and most people I know who love the book seem to have loved the movie first. I just don't feel like I want to spend two more hours with characters I found abhorrent.
i didn't know the next rivers of london book was coming out in november! right in time for my birthday, how convenient. :D
i read little women so long ago i don't remember most of it, but i do remember being bummed that jo and laurie didn't get together, and i could never understand why she married professor bhaer instead.
Yeah. I'm really hoping there's some good explanation for what happened at the end of Broken Homes.
Aw, Little Women is a good reread, but Jo and Prof. Bhaer is a terrible, terrible ending. He makes her stop writing her trashy horror novels! I can't even with that. And the less said about Amy/Laurie the better. Hmph.
Ooh, I'll definitely try to track down a copy of The Intuitionist, it sounds great! And I've never heard of Swamplandia before, but it sounds like one of those books that get lauded in all the reviews, and then become so disappointing when you give in and read it (it happened to me recently with The Goldfinch -- I like Tartt's other books, but I keep failing out of this one).
I'm excited for the new Rivers books as well, although with another author I maybe would be anxious about how they're going to handle Lesley post-book 4.
It wasn't that it was well-reviewed and I just didn't like it. It was that it was well-reviewed as a rollicking coming of age story set in the Florida swamp when it was really about a young girl's ill-advised trek to rescue her sister with a man who rapes her. It was VERY UPSETTING. Also, completely lacking in rollicking.
I'm excited for the new Rivers books as well, although with another author I maybe would be anxious about how they're going to handle Lesley post-book 4.
I just want some kind of explanation! More than "she wants to get her face back."
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This sentence speaks so deeply to me! :D I mean, I do not dogear pages, either, but I remember sitting in class one day in college and quite literally gasping in horror as one of my classmates deliberately bent her book all the way backwards to crack and warp the spine on purpose. That happened somewhere around 1995-1996, and I still can feel the trauma!
Love your answers!
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Did your dislike of Wonderboys stretch to the film? I've not read the book but the film is a total favourite of mine, all the more because it was a random find.
Faramir is awesome.
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I haven't watched the movie, and most people I know who love the book seem to have loved the movie first. I just don't feel like I want to spend two more hours with characters I found abhorrent.
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i read little women so long ago i don't remember most of it, but i do remember being bummed that jo and laurie didn't get together, and i could never understand why she married professor bhaer instead.
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Aw, Little Women is a good reread, but Jo and Prof. Bhaer is a terrible, terrible ending. He makes her stop writing her trashy horror novels! I can't even with that. And the less said about Amy/Laurie the better. Hmph.
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I'm excited for the new Rivers books as well, although with another author I maybe would be anxious about how they're going to handle Lesley post-book 4.
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I'm excited for the new Rivers books as well, although with another author I maybe would be anxious about how they're going to handle Lesley post-book 4.
I just want some kind of explanation! More than "she wants to get her face back."
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