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May I humbly suggest: Chasers

Hey, like yours too :D I just finished this, and I think the sum was less than its parts. I didn't find it scary, really, the way some people seem to, but I did enjoy it. As with a lot of "postmodern" stuff, I appreciate the skill in fracturing the way we communicate narrative, I don't...

I'm sure Texas will be the last state to ban smoking in bars, but I find the idea appealing. I hate coming home from the bar, taking a shower, and still smelling smoke on me. And wow, the tobacco companies must be raking it in. Last night, they were giving away zippo lighters AGAIN. ($10 or...

I did a quick google search for a book forum when I realized that my entire social life was scheduled around a car forum, which just wasn't an exact fit, so it dawned on me one day that if there were people online who could discuss turbos for hours, surely I could find someone to discuss...

There was that great party with Jello shots where I woke up with the most interesting bruises . . . but mostly, I now have to avoid internet access while drunk, or I send out PM's, emails, IM's, whatever, many of the "Why don't you like me anymore?!?!!!" variety. I'm also no longer allowed...

I read the 4th one, as it was a $1 somewhere, and liked it OK but not enough to pick up the trilogy. Some of the ideas were interesting but the writing itself was so-so.

I wrote a paper on Edna St. Vincent Millay and ended up reading her letters. They didn't inform my paper any but were wonderful to read. I don't know why I don't seek out more collections of letters, I really enjoyed Jane Austen's also. I saw the movie about Sylvia Plath and was quite...

It's pretty ambitious stuff. Since I haven't finished it either, I can't comment yet on how all the pieces fit together. Just keep in mind, the whole story is filtered thru Johnny, he's done the editing, so that's part of how it works. Also, his fear and reaction to the story is part of how...

I read Fermata by Baker, but it was sexual without being sensual. The problem with most American fiction, movies, whatever. I think you have a definite point there, Novella.

I read poetry when the fiction doesn't hold my attention.

I love Garden State, it has so many moments where time stops for a minute and you just experience the emotion of the scene. The scene where he tries on the shirt in the bathroom makes me giggle nonstop.

Entertainment Weekly this week has Stephen King being not so impressed with I am Charlotte Simmons. He wanted to like it, just to piss off the critics. He even had a really humorous justification for the Bad Sex award (the book is set in college, after all.) But in the end, he described it as...

Of course, he is a boy being written by a female character . . . but still, that's just silly.

MMM, poppyseed kolaches are good. Perhaps I'll stop and get one tomorrow.

I think it's one of those ideas that sound good until you start to think about the details. Can you insure that they will be taught the same? Or will a girl suddenly be told, it's Ok, you aren't expected to do well in math. In an ideal situation with ideal teachers, it would work great. With...

Read the newspaper. Not the front headlines, the little articles in the back. I find it very inspiring.

Time and Again, Jack Finney - a kind of time travel where if you just wish hard enough, you're there. Lots of fun, lots of pictures. :)

Someone once gifted Wolf with a garlic roaster. He roasted and then ate an entire head of elephant garlic. Shortly thereafter, said garlic roaster disappeared.

depends on the kind of "research". right now reading house of leaves, which has a lot of cultural reference points I don't know. google is great for that. but I was doing research for potentially writing a novel set in a certain time period, and that was about half and half. you can find...

I found the easiest way is to have a different person lead it each time and have a few questions ready to start a discussion when it starts to slow down.