Kate Beaton, on all the Austen & monster remixes
I haven't read any of the Jane Austen vs. Zombies Pirates Sea Monsters, etc. books, but I'd totally read that book in the last strip in a heartbeat.
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
Inara ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Vonnie K - May 07, 2010 10:17:37 am PDT #11333 of 28344
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Barb - May 08, 2010 1:12:50 pm PDT #11334 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Started a new book this morning and just came across the phrase "as her eyes washed over the jar."
My mind went to a really creepy place.
sumi - May 08, 2010 3:44:44 pm PDT #11335 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Hee. Nothing like waves of eyes flowing over things.
Ginger - May 08, 2010 4:16:09 pm PDT #11336 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"Or taken literally, incredibly gross."
Barb - May 08, 2010 4:53:17 pm PDT #11337 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Funny thing is, this is another one of those "love stories written by men, so of course they must be deeper and have more meaning," books. But unlike a Nicholas Sparks book, this one is actually quite good. (Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff.) Great setting/era, in post-D-Day 1945 and the premise for the story is well thought-out. The author has written quite a bit for film and television so he can craft a nice story, but again, I find myself thinking, had this been written by a woman, it might have been published, but not in hardcover and it wouldn't have gotten front table placement at B&N.
(And most editors of my acquaintance would not have allowed the washing eyes.)
But still, it's a good read with which to unwind.
Barb - May 10, 2010 7:15:25 am PDT #11338 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Question for the reading hive mind:
Why is a romance/love story written by a woman so looked down upon while a love story/romance written by a man is considered stunning work of sensitivity and a revelation?
(And yes, I deliberately reversed the terms separated by a slash.)
Gudanov - May 10, 2010 7:20:29 am PDT #11339 of 28344
Coding and Sleeping
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Ginger - May 10, 2010 7:27:26 am PDT #11340 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Because men are special flowers and women are that damned "horde of scribbling women."
Tom Scola - May 10, 2010 7:30:38 am PDT #11341 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Barb, you saw the Brontësaurus commercial, right?
Steph L. - May 10, 2010 7:32:02 am PDT #11342 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Why is a romance/love story written by a woman so looked down upon while a love story/romance written by a man is considered stunning work of sensitivity and a revelation?
Because a man expressing emotion (whether via the written word or spoken word) is considered an act of God, while women -- well, you know *women.* We're ALWAYS spewing all of our silly little emotions EVERYWHERE, because we're such emotional creatures who can't control our crazy hormonal fee-fees! Just because a woman writes a book full of emotions is no big thing, because it's just a different venue through which the silly little woman can spew forth her silly little feelings. A dime a dozen, women's feelings are.
But men's feelings! My god, more rare and precious than unobtainium! And should be heralded and treasured as such!
...or so I assume. But my fee-fees might be clouding the issue.