Woo hoo! Thanks!
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Jesse - Jul 23, 2010 8:19:12 am PDT #11774 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sj - Jul 23, 2010 10:47:31 am PDT #11775 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone here read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel? I just finished reading it and thought it was well written and interesting, but I noticed there were strong opinions in both directions on amazon.com.
megan walker - Jul 25, 2010 2:42:47 pm PDT #11776 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Finally finished Part 1 of Don Quixote. Yay? But I am determined to finish this thing by the next book salon meeting.
Far more entertaining was Tomorrow When the War Began, which consuela recommended to me. Totally Red Dawn meets The Outsiders, but I loved it.
Kat will be happy to hear that I also got The Last Rendez-vous and A Place of Greater Safety off of hold at the library. So I guess that once I leave Spain and Tudor England, I will be back on familiar ground in France of the long nineteenth century.
Although I was a bit dismayed that A Place of Greater Safety is even longer than Wolf Hall.
Kat - Jul 25, 2010 7:07:57 pm PDT #11777 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Although I was a bit dismayed that A Place of Greater Safety is even longer than Wolf Hall.
HA! I've just started it. I'm about 200 pages in. I can at least keep the people separate, unlike Wolf Hall, because they have separate names. My students studied the French Revolution for acadeca this year, but I'm not really as conversant with the history as I am Tudor England. I keep feeling like people pop up that I recognize (Necker! Saint-Just!) but then the details get lost.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2010 7:32:57 pm PDT #11778 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow. I just googled "Holy Shit Quotient" and got 12,600 hits.
That one's out in the world now, propagating itself.
sumi - Jul 25, 2010 8:15:26 pm PDT #11779 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
That's excellent.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2010 8:25:20 pm PDT #11780 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's excellent.
It's cool. Not in a puffed up, "ahh, the wonder of me" Peter Pan way. But just seeing the process by which information is disseminated. It's like a little marked bit of language that I'm conscious of because I coined it. It got disseminated through TV Tropes and TWOP and got out into the world.
Strix - Jul 26, 2010 5:50:43 am PDT #11781 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
You should totally let erinaceous know. It would be cool, from an etymological point of view, to actually have a verbal ground zero to trace it from, like over a ten year or 20 year period.
sumi - Jul 26, 2010 6:14:36 am PDT #11782 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, you totally should. (Wouldn't erinaceous know anyway?)
Jesse - Jul 26, 2010 7:18:48 am PDT #11783 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Got the book, Dawn! Thanks!!