ShooShooBaby said:Mary_Deluxe, Geek Love is one of my all-time favorite books!
pretty faythe said:1943 copy of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Darhling said:Stephen King - Lisey's Story.
A great book, written about the dept of a love-filled relaitionship between a couple. It has the usual spooky elements and some supernatural elements but I love the way he describes the lovestory here, which is the main thin in this book.
Darhling said:I also just bought Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, but I haven't started reading it yet.
Miss 1929 said:Loved Lisey's Story! I cried buckets. And the Long Boy will forever haunt my water glass...Obviously influenced by his recent brush with death, and it sure feels like a big fat thank-you/mash note to Mrs. King (Tabitha). One of his best, right up there with my all-time favorite, Bag of Bones.
I read it years ago during the controversy, it was great.
Right now, I just finished "Individuality and Clothes" (1930) and am about to start "Angels on Toast" by Dawn Powell (1938).
The first of Phryne's adventures from Australia's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth.
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.
Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism - not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse - until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.