While I would dearly LOVE to come pick it up, that's not happening any time soon. So yes, please mail it to me.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Atropa - Apr 06, 2010 5:36:00 pm PDT #11220 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
megan walker - Apr 07, 2010 9:04:09 am PDT #11221 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I was up until 1:30 last night finishing The Girl Who Played with Fire. I think it was even better than The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Now on to the second volume of The Hunger Games.
Kat - Apr 09, 2010 4:31:48 am PDT #11222 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I enjoyed both of those books so much, megan. I loved how what was set up as the abuse in the first book was not what I had anticipated. And I love how fierce Liz is.
Strix - Apr 09, 2010 4:33:17 am PDT #11223 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have not been able to get into the first chapter of Dragon. Should I really give it another try?
Kat - Apr 09, 2010 4:35:45 am PDT #11224 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The Michael parts of the first part of book one are sloggy to me. But Erin, I loved the book. I'd say give it about 50 pages and if it doesn't work for you set it aside.
Oh my! Finished The Children's Book, by AS Byatt. Oh MY what a giant sprawling book, looking at the destructiveness of the artistic temperament and the hotbed of genuine change and hypocrisy of he pre-WWI era.
Strix - Apr 09, 2010 4:42:02 am PDT #11225 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, I had picked that up at the library (the Byatt) and not gotten around to it. Is it fun, then? I love big ol' Victorian era novels.
It's why I love Sarah Waters so much; I still like her WWI period stuff, but I adore the Victorian lesbian thrillers.
Kat - Apr 09, 2010 4:45:09 am PDT #11226 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It is definitely thought-provoking, Erin. I was up for two days in a row to finish it. But, like all Byatt, it's unsettling. I think I still prefer Possession to The Children's Hour, but the doubling and the foils in the book are great. Extremely bleak though.
I have a Sarah Waters out right now (last years) but I think I need to be light for a bit. I'll still skim Moby Dick and instead read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.
Strix - Apr 09, 2010 4:49:28 am PDT #11227 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The new Waters is v. Gothic; I quite enjoyed reading it up late one night this winter.
megan walker - Apr 09, 2010 5:46:38 am PDT #11228 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I enjoyed both of those books so much, megan. I loved how what was set up as the abuse in the first book was not what I had anticipated. And I love how fierce Liz is.
I love how I completely misread the opening scene of the second book. I think Liz is a little too good to be true, but it's great to have such a strong female character. Which is true about The Hunger Games as well.
I'm excited to read the Sarah Waters as well, but I have The Help and a few others to get through first.
I'm just so excited that I've gotten into reading fiction in a serious way again.
Gris - Apr 09, 2010 6:22:33 am PDT #11229 of 28344
Hey. New board.
I've started the sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and so far it is lovely. I could read any number of books in this protagonist's voice.