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I read The Bonesetter's Daughter, and liked it well enough. I've been to a writer's conference and have heard Amy Tan speak about her writing, and I like her well enough, but am I hearing that you didn't get through The Corrections????????? Was it too, too -- what was it 'too' for you...

evanesced ...............

Diana Gabaldon! After reading several recommendations for the Outlander series here, I picked up the Recorded Books version of Dragonfly in Amber at my library; I'm enjoying it hugely. Davina Porter is able to do accents and voices like nobody's business -- English, American, Scottish...

Alexander McCall Smith is light and amusing. The Ladies' No 1 Detective Agency is perfect to start with. McCall Smith Lilian Jackson Braun writes books that are fun and amusing. link The Braun books could be called "sweet" too. If sweet is not for you, I second Elmore Leonard as a...

Good for you, Sammeron. You have clearly expressed your shock, sadness, outrage (and also your feelings of near despair) here, but you never allowed yourself to become bitter and you never lost sight of your true Self (which is demonstrably a good and rational Self.) You've really done...

guilt about all the

Happy birthday, AquaBlue! :)

Finally, finally saw PotC. Does not Johnny Depp qualify as the most adorable rogue you've ever seen in your life? Next time I'm fast forwarding through the rest of the film and only watching him. ;) :D

albeit wrongly and perversely in

Thanks, blueboatdriver. It's so reassuring to know that they're still writing them faster than we can read them. :)

I'll miss you, Halo!

Welcome, DB. You'll find lots of like-minded friends around here. :)

Now, why d'ya think old Ben stopped calculating at the tender young age of 40? :rolleyes:

Well, I certainly contributed to the best of my ability. ;) :D

As I was climbing back in through the bathroom window ;) I'm pretty sure I saw somebody who looked a lot like Fabio down by the pool. I think he went off and left his suit over there on the beach in the Nabokov thread. At any rate, pontalba was waving something in the air and yodeling...

You sly dog, you. Did you remember to bring the olives? ;)

It just simply blows me away that this woman could actually have put stones in her pockets and drowned herself -- it just blows me away.

"A Walk in the Woods" may be in order. Or even "A Swim in the Pool"? ;)

muggle? How on earth did you escape? Get back in here -- and bring some ice. ;)