Oh, dear. She has provided me with hours of enjoyment.
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
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."
Strix - Jun 02, 2010 9:03:57 am PDT #11557 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
erin_obscure - Jun 04, 2010 5:11:20 am PDT #11558 of 28343
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Well gosh darnit. I'm listening to the Hollows Series by Kim Harrison as audio books. The first 5 books were performed by Marguerite Gavin who was wonderfull. Now i'm on the 6th book narrated by Gigi Bermingham. She might have been ok on her own, but after hearing the others she's just AWFUL. She doesn't even pronounce character names or key elements the same. You'd think there'd be a reference key. The characters are very different with her whiny portrayal and i suddenly am less interested in finishing this book....except that i know the next one goes back to Ms. Gavin and i'd miss important plot points if i skipped an entire book due to shoddy vocal performance. It's profoundly upsetting me in a very first world kind of way.
DavidS - Jun 04, 2010 5:14:52 am PDT #11559 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's profoundly upsetting me in a very first world kind of way.
Emmett and I felt the same way when we listened to the second of Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books with a new reader. Fortunately I'd just gotten the abridged version by accident and we were able to go back and have it read properly by Stephen Briggs.
Volans - Jun 04, 2010 11:38:32 am PDT #11560 of 28343
move out and draw fire
There's a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies iPhone app. [link]
And how come none of you told me about Android Karenina ?
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2010 11:48:46 am PDT #11561 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2010 11:49:12 am PDT #11562 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And how come none of you told me about Android Karenina ?
We did.
I know this doubly, because P-C chastised me when I forgot he'd mentioned it before me.
Volans - Jun 04, 2010 11:50:18 am PDT #11563 of 28343
move out and draw fire
is chastened
How did I miss that?
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2010 11:51:07 am PDT #11564 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was a blip. I assume it's just come out? Or is coming out? Now there will be more talk about it. Maybe.
Ouise - Jun 05, 2010 4:09:45 am PDT #11565 of 28343
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Back to the gothy YA, I strongly recommend a writer I just discovered for myself, Nina Kiriki Hoffman. I've read three of her books, and have requested everything the library has by her. There's a lovely delicacy about her writing that I particularly like.
The one that made me think of the gothy YA request was A Stir of Bones, which has a sentient house and a Victorian ghost boy.
Strix - Jun 05, 2010 4:29:27 am PDT #11566 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, Jilli. I tried to read the Ellen Streiber YA vampire novel, the first one, and my dear, I just couldn't get through it.
I kept trying to like it, but I just couldn't. I thought it was...kinda awful.
ION, I am rereading "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and I find it so compelling every time. Complex, but worth it. Political, literary, historical...she has a memoir out that I really would like to read,