Darn UPS. They left me a notice rather than a book.
I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Willow ,'Showtime'
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."
sumi - Aug 24, 2010 7:58:32 pm PDT #12199 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Aug 24, 2010 8:01:11 pm PDT #12200 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Darn UPS. They left me a notice rather than a book.
And yet they double park their trucks everywhere impeding my commute.
Bastards of Brown!
Polter-Cow - Aug 24, 2010 8:01:31 pm PDT #12201 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The notice left you really depressed. You didn't hate it though.
Steph L. - Aug 25, 2010 11:53:21 am PDT #12202 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh! Mockingjay is in at the library! WIN!
sumi - Aug 26, 2010 4:27:33 am PDT #12203 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
Yesterday UPS didn't even make a second attempt and I had my signed notice on my door and everything. Fingers crossed that they bother to attempt to deliver today.
sumi - Aug 26, 2010 6:41:37 am PDT #12204 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
John Hodgeman tweets that he is reading A Game of Thrones and somebody tells GRRM who posts it on his lj leading to this fun comment from a fan:
"Hi, I'm a Lannister."
"And I'm a Stark."
"I'm bloodthirsty and ruthless."
"And I'm noble and- AAAAIIIIGGH!"
Which I've spoiler fonted for ah, fairly non-specific spoilage.
Pix - Aug 26, 2010 7:39:44 pm PDT #12205 of 28333
The status is NOT quo.
OMG Hunger Games. I stayed up half the night earlier this week finishing it, and now I'm halfway through the second. So amazing!
megan walker - Aug 26, 2010 8:40:13 pm PDT #12206 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And, another one bites the dust...
Consuela - Aug 26, 2010 9:49:28 pm PDT #12207 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I want to figure out how Collins makes so compulsively readable a book that has so. many. problems. Seriously: the world-building makes no sense, it's depressingly gender-essentialist and heteronormative, and the logistics are right out of fairy tales.
And yet I can't stop reading them because she's got the thriller pacing down so well!
If I could just nibble off that part of Collins brain, she could keep the rest. Want.
Steph L. - Aug 27, 2010 7:00:08 am PDT #12208 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
First of all, I just got a library notice that Blameless is in for me to pick up. I didn't think it was even being released until Sept. 1. But I might drive up there and pick it up (I have the books sent to the library by my office, not home), since...
I stayed up until 3 a.m. finishing Mockingjay. I read it too fast, I know, but I wanted to know what happens. I'm a little okay with it, and a little angry. (Because, seriously? Prim?!? SERIOUSLY?!? God DAMN. That's Minear-esque. It just is.)
I'll say this: Suzanne Collins' method of telling rather than showing is at least more deft than Dan Brown's.