Can you carve a dartboard out of a book?
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."
it's thin ... won't require much carving
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.
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.
Wee despot!
Trunchbull?
Ms. Trunchbull is the horrible mean Head of School in the book Matilda.
I'm very strong. I could fight The Trunchbull
Awesome. We just read that to Abe last month.
I think I can carve a target right into Sarah Palin's heart, via her book. Which is commonly available on the thrift market for a low, low price that won't go into her pocket. That actually sounds... fun. Destructive fun! Maybe this will be the perfect opportunity to experiment and find out what happens when I take a belt sander to a book. Then, of course, I will want to find out what happens when I throw her book into a raging BBQ inferno...
Anybody who would like to give an old book a good home where it will be safe from destructive book crafting, please LMK.
I just picked up If You're Reading This, It's Too Late, the second book in the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch (the first being The Name of This Book Is Secret). The gimmick is that the author is really afraid to write these books because you, the reader, might end up getting into trouble with the villains. Which leads to lots of cute narration humor. And this line right here is a prime example of why I enjoy reading these books:
You will notice that I have numbered the chapters in this book backward. Like a countdown to a rocket launch. Or a bomb. With any luck, the book will explode at the end, and I won't have to finish it.