I really liked Feed, too.
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
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."
Consuela - Jun 17, 2010 3:28:55 pm PDT #11602 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DavidS - Jun 18, 2010 9:59:59 am PDT #11603 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Guardian has a feature where writers ask themselves questions they've never been asked in interviews. Several are fun and interesting, but I particularly liked this short one with Jeanette Winterson.
*****
How do you feel about being interviewed?
I feel like a perfectly good potato put through a masher. Nothing comes out the way I expected, and my skin is off, and the solid, sane things get pulped and the whole thing is served up easy to swallow, but not for me. I am still somewhere at the bottom of the masher shouting "I AM A POTATO GET ME OUT OF HERE".
Why do you think what you do matters?
Art and potatoes are pretty similar. Everyone needs slow-release energy and something to stabilise the gut. Art does that – it isn't fast food, but it isn't fancy food either. It's the solid stuff of life. I once had lunch at Heston Blumenthall's Fat Duck at Bray. I was very depressed because I am not a chocolate risotto kind of person. That night I dug up new potatoes from my garden with my hands, steamed them, covered them in olive oil and mint and chives, and ate nothing else. Then I felt better. The same thing happens to me with a book or a painting. It reminds me that life is good and solid, not about money and not about fad.
Have you ever found true love?
Yes, but then what do you do?
Kate P. - Jun 18, 2010 12:18:07 pm PDT #11604 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
"I AM A POTATO GET ME OUT OF HERE".
Ha, that's brilliant. Man, I used to be super into her books, but I haven't read anything she's done in years. This makes me glad she's still around.
Strix - Jun 18, 2010 3:39:56 pm PDT #11605 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I tried Sexing the Cherry, but I was just...bored.
Sarah Waters, OTOH, I eat up with a spoon. Although I like the Victoriana better than the 20th c. stuff, although it is good.
Did anyone ever read "The Observations," speaking of 18th c. cryptolesbian lit? Memfault on name, but quite good.
beth b - Jun 23, 2010 11:30:05 am PDT #11606 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just finished Feed
Damn
Kat - Jun 23, 2010 12:02:41 pm PDT #11607 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just finished the book One Day which is so good. Highly recommend.
Gris - Jun 24, 2010 6:41:17 am PDT #11608 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I'm reading One Day right now, alternating with Catching Fire. They are both good.
Toddson - Jun 24, 2010 11:48:04 am PDT #11609 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Octavia Butler's going to be in the SF Hall of Fame. Someone I don't know of is hosting a party on Saturday (in Seattle) to celebrate. info
sumi - Jun 28, 2010 7:36:24 am PDT #11610 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Actual A Dance with Dragon update on GRRM's lJ.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2010 7:39:35 am PDT #11611 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Spoilers for a few characters, btw - he mentions a few chapters he's written for the next book and who they belong to. (So you know those three live to suffer another day.)