Discussion Forums - September Hot Topics

Crap, the Necklace didn't work out, the person pm'd me that it was an ARC and was that OK?  HUH?!!  What part of "ARCs are not postable" did you not understand?  I canceled the order, now I don't know whether or not I really want it.  I have more than plenty to read.

That sucks, maybe you could get it from your library?

I stopped using our local library to borrow books years ago.  My own collection is better than theirs in the categories I read, and my TBR pile is huge enough.  I do use the library to look up things in Consumer Reports, and twice a year go to the FOL sales, and get more for the TBR pile.  No return deadlines!  I put The Necklace on my reminder list, if I get interested again I can always re-order it.

Devil sounds like an interesting story.  There is so little worth the money for a ticket at the movies these days, might have to look into that one.

That sucks. They must have known it was an issue or they wouldn't have asked. Some people's kids.....

Just finished reading Black Diva of the Thirties The Life of Ruby Elzy by David E. Weaver. I'm a little outraged at this point that I had never heard of her because she was born about sixty miles from where I live, and her mother spent most of Elzy's adult life in a town fourteen miles away from me as the only teacher of the black school. (This was during Jim Crow.) Elzy was the first Serena in Porgy and Bess, Gershwin wrote a song specifically for her voice. She performed at the White House for Eleanor Rossevelt at Mrs. Rossevelt's request. That's pretty friggin' famous and influential if you ask me. Why am I outraged that I have never heard of her? I was required to take a MS Studies class in high school in which we learned about influential and famous native Mississippians. We covered Bobbie Gentry of Ode to Billy Joe fame, but no Ruby Elzy?!? WTF

I dunno what's up with the wierd font, it won't go away.