turns out the house of night book (first one at least) is the absolute perfect thing to read while biding my time until i can take another pain pill and attempt to sleep. For this i am glad to have borrowed it from the library. The new Stephen King that i was working on before breaking my foot is NOT something i want to read in the middle of the night while my foot aches in agony.
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erin_obscure - Dec 22, 2009 12:42:07 pm PST #10702 of 28370
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Strix - Dec 22, 2009 4:18:14 pm PST #10703 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read the House of Night books when I was in the hospital on WHOA a lot of morphine.
erin_obscure - Dec 22, 2009 4:42:44 pm PST #10704 of 28370
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
mmmm, yeah, that sounds about perfect!
Kat - Dec 24, 2009 7:18:52 pm PST #10705 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P-C, have you read A Gate at the Stairs yet? I just finished it. What did you think?
Polter-Cow - Dec 24, 2009 8:20:55 pm PST #10706 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I haven't yet! I have so many other things I'm reading at the moment, I haven't slotted it in. Plus I kind of have to get in the Lorrie Moore mood and all. Do I feel like being wistful and depressed right now? Hmmmm.
Calli - Dec 25, 2009 2:58:30 am PST #10707 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I finished Heyer's The Grand Sophie yesterday, and immediately lent it to my sister, who'd been wondering what all the giggling was about. Now I get to chose among Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, LKH's new one (I know, I know, but it features Jason, and I've always been fond of Jason. Partially because he's the only one who calls Anita on her bullshit ) and Moonwise. The last one's the only one that's remotely seasonal, and I suspect it'll require more than my fractured Christmas-with-family attention. Three potentially interesting books to chose among is a nice problem to have, though.
Kat - Dec 25, 2009 4:28:08 am PST #10708 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have so many other things I'm reading at the moment, I haven't slotted it in. Plus I kind of have to get in the Lorrie Moore mood and all. Do I feel like being wistful and depressed right now? Hmmmm.
SO true. But I'm on a book buying freeze so I'm at the whim of book holds at the library.
Consuela - Dec 26, 2009 7:53:00 am PST #10709 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The last one's the only one that's remotely seasonal, and I suspect it'll require more than my fractured Christmas-with-family attention
It will. Greer Gilman is brilliant, but man, her prose is baroque. You need a quiet house to get through it.
DavidS - Dec 26, 2009 7:54:58 am PST #10710 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Consuela! I was thinking of you this morning as I was watching the movie version of Touching the Void on cable.
Let me just say this about that: Yikes! I can't even begin to imagine climbing down a mountain, unaided, with a broken leg for four days. I don't want to imagine it actually.
flea - Dec 26, 2009 3:22:36 pm PST #10711 of 28370
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The Touching The Void guys came to my elementary school for an assembly when I was in 5th grade. The image of how he demonstrated how he broke that leg is pretty indelibly in my brain.