mmmm, yeah, that sounds about perfect!
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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 4:42:44 pm PST #10704 of 28370
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
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.
Consuela - Dec 27, 2009 10:46:03 am PST #10712 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was thinking of you this morning as I was watching the movie version of Touching the Void on cable.
Hah! I will take it as a compliment that a story of a climbing epic-but-not-tragedy reminds you of me. *grins*
That docudrama was almost too much for me: I had to stop the Tivo and go away for while when they dramatized Joe breaking his leg.
To bring this back to literary subjects, the book Touching the Void is really excellent, highly-recommended, and it has a happy ending of sorts.
Connie Neil - Dec 28, 2009 9:25:00 am PST #10713 of 28370
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For those who like their romance reading spiced with rapid political rhetoric, there's a diary from the weekend on Daily Kos about romance novels.
There's a mention of Smart Bitches in the comments, and I was taking copious notes on what books I should read.