Stacie's comments
Stacie's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
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I have been silent on this site for quite some time, and I hate that I am feeling the pull to respond to this. However, Kiwi, I think your response to Charity's very clear and inoffensive comment about the offensiveness of the terms "stupid and retarded" are quite telling.
No one's preference in reading material is "stupid" and no one is "retarded" because they don't agree with you. Their work is not "retarded or stupid" simply because you don't like it.
It is fine that you don't like everything and it is fine if you don't get everything an author is writing about, but please try to have better reasons than simply going with your "trademark". I would think that someone who is a part of a reading group would have more words in her vocabulary with which to review books.
I have to jump on the Christopher Moore love - parts are laugh out loud funny.
C.D. Payne's Youth in Revolt also had parts that were funny.
Some of David Sedaris's stories are pretty damn funny as well.
That was lovely Cheryl. Thank you for posting that.
All I can say is that it is a great moment in American history and I am so proud to have been a part of it!
Wow Jaime! You got a great deal on some fabulous books!
Atishay,
I would love to hear what you think of Rebecca. I have it on my shelf to read - and was going to read it for the fall challenge, but never got around to it.
Kellie,
I have had that on my TBR list FOREVER. Your post has just pushed it up a bit!
I was reading The Audacity of Hope, which I really liked, but my life is so hectic right now that I decided that I needed a dose of the unreal rather than the real.
So, I picked up Around the World in 80 Days. It is just what the therapist ordered! It is my first Verne and I can tell you right now that it won't be my last.
It is witty and fun and I really like it.
That part was hilarious Scott! She was always scheming something to cook up with the animals!
Maybe it is because I have a sailor's mouth, but the use of the "word" didn't affect me. As I believe with all use of the f-word, I believe that Moore used it effectively rather than extravegantly. Whenever it was used, it was well used.
I also have to add (it just came to me) that my family is very forunate to live in a community with an idependent bookstore that affords the opportunities to have authors come and read from their books and meet their public. Most importantly is that my daughter gets to meet the people that create the stories and characters that she reads about every day. For instance, she has met Mo Willems and Graeme Base - two authors that she very much loves.
Kellie,
I actually got to see him speak last year at the book group conference in San Jose, CA that was talked about in another thread.
I agree. He is very attractive. :) And he is also very personable and knowledgable and thoughtful.
He is one of those authors that I am truly honored to have signed my books. (he and Alice Walker are the two that I am most happy with meeting.)
Sheila, I would love to know what you think of that book. I have had it on my TBR for quite some time, but never seem to move forward to picking it up.
Finished Dracula...read Candide (which I really liked) and have now started Tale of Two Cities. I have avoided Dickens until now and am pleasantly surprised, as I am really enjoying the book so far.
I was told that his wit and humor was a little hard to pick up in this one, but I feel like I am getting it. Or I am simply giggling at the wrong parts!
Jeremy, it is funny that you say that. While I didn't listen to Shakespeare while reading, I did read it aloud and did find that it really helped.
I do that with Olde English as well.
JG, That is one of the main reasons why I realized audiobooks weren't for me. I tried it and honestly didn't retain much of what I had read. I have known my learning style for quite some time, so had avoided audio for a long time. I am glad I tried it, but it really isn't for me. I have to actually see and hold the book and sometimes even write in my book in order to retain the information.
I kind of took the story of the wolf as exemplary of Dracula's control of wolves as a whole. He enters into a new land and the wolf in the zoo, which is essentially tame is driven to a point of needing to get out of his captivity. If I remember correctly, doesn't the wolf come back in the morning, when Dracula is no longer as powerful as he is at night?
Melissa, It picks up soon. There is some connection to the later part of text with the letters. But, keep reading. I think it picked up considerably once it focused more on Lucy, which you are getting to.
Bloodsucking Fiends is before You Suck, correct?
I think that is right...I didn't realize that and bought You Suck but not Fiends...guess I gotta make a trip to the bookstore. Damn!
Lori and Jessica, I think that it really starts to pick up beyond where you are. Right now I am at a part where I want to keep reading and curse the skies when someone (child or husband) talks to me or wants something.
