Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


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."


Polgara - Feb 08, 2010 10:01:27 am PST #10940 of 28354
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

I just finished Dresden Files' author Jim Butcher's fantasy series, the Codex Alera. It's 'shepherd-boy-makes-good', but Butcher writes such great characters, suspenseful action scenes and wonderful plots that when I finished I wanted to go back to the beginning and start again. (Sadly I couldn't 'cause I loaned the first two books out already.)

They were really stupid about naming the books, though. If you're interested, start with the first book and try not to look at the titles of the later books. The path is obvious by the end of the first book (Furies of Calderon), but you still don't want it spelled out before you've even started.


Katerina Bee - Feb 08, 2010 3:36:30 pm PST #10941 of 28354
Herding cats for fun

Decided there's no way I can destroy a book published in 1880. Even if the bookstore did give it to me for a carved book project, I just can't.

Crap!! That means it will have to go into the pile of books that are too good to get rid of, oh woe is me, for I am ever too short of shelf space.

No, instead I think I'll sink my exacto knife into an outdated PDR I picked up for the gilded edges. I have no real qualms about taking that one away from future generations of bibliophiles.

Will have to keep an eye out for one of those giant legal books so I can do a project with a lot of depth.


Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2010 5:11:10 pm PST #10942 of 28354
brillig

Yay, preservation!

Are there any copies of Sarah Palin's bio around you can practice on?


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2010 6:14:37 pm PST #10943 of 28354
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Can you carve a dartboard out of a book?


Toddson - Feb 16, 2010 8:33:36 am PST #10944 of 28354
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

it's thin ... won't require much carving


sumi - Feb 17, 2010 9:01:36 am PST #10945 of 28354
Art Crawl!!!

Somebody has made mock webpages for various instituions associated with A Song of Ice and Fire - spoilery if you haven't read all the books.


DavidS - Feb 17, 2010 8:42:04 pm PST #10946 of 28354
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Brief discussion tonight with Matilda included literary allusion.

Emmett: You're getting very big.
Matilda: I'm a big girl. I'm very tall. And I'm strong. Feel my muscles.
Me: You do have strong muscles.
Matilda: I'm very strong. I could fight The Trunchbull.
Me: You could. What would you do if you fought the Trunchbull?
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.
JZ: Don't you think it's enough to throw you lunch at her?
Me: No, she's got the right idea.
Matilda: I'd cut her head off.


Strix - Feb 17, 2010 9:09:41 pm PST #10947 of 28354
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Wee despot!


Kathy A - Feb 18, 2010 6:13:06 am PST #10948 of 28354
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Trunchbull?


Kat - Feb 18, 2010 6:50:56 am PST #10949 of 28354
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ms. Trunchbull is the horrible mean Head of School in the book Matilda.