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bosstweed

A Writer's Holiday

Apr 03, 2006 12:06

It's time for a brief vacation. I've been writing or editing more or less steadily for the last few months, with random days or weekends off and those usually accidental, guilt-laden, or both. Lately I've had more ideas than I know what to do with and have been frittering time away on various false starts. I've tried one particular story in ( Read more... )

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I just put my brain on Shuffle docsrock April 3 2006, 13:06:15 UTC

and it came up with

Bastard Out of Carolina
[Anything] by Ed McBain
The Clan of the Cave Bear

Not your usual stuff but good reads all.

Re: I just put my brain on Shuffle bosstweed April 3 2006, 14:14:13 UTC

I've read and enjoyed both Clan of the Cave Bear and stuff by Ed McBain, but I will take Bastard Out of Carolina under consideration. I've meant to read it but never gotten there.

Re: I just put my brain on Shuffle trailofstars April 3 2006, 18:45:31 UTC

I second Bastard Out of Carolina. Great book.

trailofstars April 3 2006, 18:44:21 UTC

If you want a book completely away from the usual stuff and have yet to read 100 Years of Solitude, I highly recommend it. I also recommend The Master and the Margarita and the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman.

bosstweed April 4 2006, 07:24:43 UTC

Thank you for the recommendations! You're the 5,051st person to recommend Pullman to me, so I guess it's time for me to get serious about reading it. :)

netsirk April 4 2006, 10:36:42 UTC

I second His Dark Materials!!

haloolah April 5 2006, 08:09:46 UTC

I third Pullman. In fact, another iSchool alumna introduced me to HDM, and I devoured all three in a marathon 24 hour, no-sleep book orgy.

I was totally jealous when I saw that Breadloaf School of English, where my BFF goes, is offering a class called "Dark Materials: Milton, Blake, Pullman" at its Oxford campus. How cool is that?