Book Lovers

This book by Barbara Gowdy, a Canadian author, is one of my favourites this year. I have never read a book that was written in the narrative of an animal, with the exception of Charlotte's Web. (Although this may be inaccurate - I can't remember who narrated Charlotte's Web) I have always loved elephants and this story was mesmerizing; they act and feel as though I personally imagined them. It is so convincingly well written that it's entirely possible that perhaps Barbara herself is/was an elephant. It was just a sad and startling reality; I fell in love with Mud.

The only thing I didn't care for, like every dreamer was how it ended. And not because I think it left you hanging or was poorly ended, but because it didn't turn out they way I had anticipated.

You should read this book, whoever you are.

x-posted to my journal.

Since this is a community for those who love books, I'm assuming we all have authors we love particularly as well.

Authors that we would visciously defend and perhaps wish to pit against authors we don't like as much...

Enter lit_cagematch.

Nominate your favorite author in the appropriate category (first one is Classic Children's Fantasy) and then vote your favorite author to victory!

_{Hopefully this is allowed, if not please let me know and I'll gladly delete it.}

And to keep this a bit more on-topic, has anyone here read The Book of Flying by Keith Miller? I read it about a month ago, and thought the story quite lovely, but at the same time, it unsettled me. I can't say I enjoyed it, although the prose was beautiful, and I was wondering if anyone else has read it and felt the same.

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If this is not allowed, please forgive me and feel free to delete this post. Thank you. =D

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My name is R. M. Rhodes and my new novel, Stephanie Doesn't Answer the Phone Anymore is coming out in April. The book release party will be a benefit for HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), a Washington, DC non-profit organization. Details about the book release are behind the cut, along with a short synopsis.

( Book Release Benefit on April 15, 2005Collapse )

Completed Wuthering Heights last night. It is such a lovely book. Perfect for reading when you're cuddled up in bed.

My favourite reads of last year:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Merchant's Tale by Chaucer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Want to see two books duke it out? Check out literarydthmtch.

Hi...I'm Chelsea, I'm new, whats up..."Memoirs of a Geisha" is quite possibly my favorite book ever...I also very much enjoy C.S. Lewis, and Keith Green's biography is incredible, "No Compromise."

I'm taking a Gen X Lit class right now, in there we've read "Generation X" by Douglas Copeland, which was okay, "Less Than Zero," by Bret Easton Ellis(I loved this one and I CAN'T FIND IT!!!), umm what else... "Fight Club" which I didn't actually read, nor have I seen the movie, and "Slacker" the screen play which I skimmed. I'm taking American Lit before 1900 next semester. :) Thoreau <3 <3 and Whitman.

I think I have a serious problem with bookstores and such...I have NO money...like...I'm not your typical college student with no money either, I'm the one with two credit cards maxed out on coffee and books and clothes and all of that. I'm not proud. But yeah. I just got the LIFE (magazine) photographers book which I have yet to read (or just look at), oh "Found" by Davy Rothbart is another great one, and I got "We're All The Same" which is about a boy born in Africa with AIDS...the cover says something like the story of a boy's courage and a mother's love or heart or something.

Has anyone read "The Quality of Life Report?"

I also have Ernest Hemingway's first novel, which I have yet to read as well.

Blah I have to make a wrist band to cover my tattoo for work and I'm not a happy camper. It has to be black and probably an inch and a half wide...its going to look so stupid...so I need to think of something cool and creative and comfortable...and something that I can get wet. I thought about getting a watch and just not puttting that hand in the sink. Hmm. (I work @ Starbucks, diversity my ass.)

P.S. new friends always welcome :)

I haven't felt very inspired by a book as of late.

If you have a good novel that you fell in love with and is a book that you could read over again, please recommend it to me.

I appreciate all of your suggestions.

AAArgh.


(xposted in my LJ)

I am finished with the book.

It's 7 minutes to 3 pm.

While I agree with Sai King's Epilouge....
I loved the story, but:
HE MAKES ME CRAZY!!!
*sigh*
((Sorry if this is a quasi spoiler....for those of you who understand the following reference--and if you don't ...you will...when you reach the end of the story))
Sai King must've liked that movie Memento.

It was a worthwhile journey.