Waiting for the day when things were gonna change and life would rearrange for us.

[raybear]

I was poking around in my closet for specific sweater and opened up a drawer I rarely use and there on the top were three fresh-out-of-the-package black v-neck undershirts. Hello! I don't remember buying you at all, though maybe vaguely some trip to Target months ago and they were in the clearance bin and I came home and wasn't really feeling them. But today I am. So, thank you, my forward-thinking self of the past.

Today I was thinking there should be a website like Rotten Tomatoes except for books instead of movies. But really, who would really use that except for me and eight of my friends? I think all the time about Tom Wolfe and The Bonfire of the Vanities and how he struggled with the director about the movie during filming until some other producer pulled the movie director aside and pointed out that bestselling authors reach maybe 200,000 people and movies that completely flop are watched by double that number and so the director kicked Tom Wolfe off the set. Then the movie sucked, but that small dose of schadenfreude can't really make up for the sad fact of readership being so tiny. [DISCLAIMER: I'm a fiction writer and I made up part of the minor details of this anecdote because my memory is falty and I don't feel like googling it, but the principle stays the same.] Really, I don't actually care this second about novel-reading audiences being so small. I just want a website that compiles book reviews. I'm currently reading Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days and I remember it wasn't so hotly reviewed when it came out, but so far I'm hooked, only 1/3 into it.

Last night we went to temple for evening service and an orientation meeting that didn't really happen, so we stayed and helped prep for weekend events. I worked in the kitchen and made the filling for a coconut pecan pie tarts. I wish I knew exactly when I went from hating coconut to rabidly craving it so last night was kinda tough being around it. Writing about it, I'm jonesing for it all over again.

Comments

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

metacritic has a slightly less developed book dept than some of its other fields, but it might give you some of what you're looking for.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

perfect!!!! i mean, relatively so. at least it's a start!!! thank you!!!!! i'm so excited i can't stop hitting the exclamation mark. xo

[gotmce99.livejournal.com]

Once again, that icon is hot and aethestically pleasing.

No one makes me love chest hair like Ray makes me love chest hair.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

that's my mission in life. to make queer women who have heretofore not shown interest in chest hair possible rethink their stance. :)

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

Chest hair haters!!!

omg that's like horrible.

[gotmce99.livejournal.com]

Well, it's working!

[0595.livejournal.com]

rottentomatobooks.com is an available domain name

We should start it.

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

Someone referred to Giant Drag as "The Anti-Strokes" which is now funny because of the "this isn't it".

I wish there WERE such a website. It would've saved me from The Poisonwood Bible, The Cain River and a host of other Oprah books. Omg, there are so many bad, bad, bad books hiding between well-designed covers. I am almost more pissy when I read a bad book rather than see a movie.

Fortunately, if you are careful with the binding you can get your money back, unlike a movie where they just laugh in your face.

lookit!

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

http://www.librarything.com