The cover of the first edition. One of the books I covet the most.
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."
Huh. My treasured (and signed!) childhood copy of Something Wicked is a collectible: [link]
Must get Pete to scan the photo of Mr. Bradbury holding Clovis.
I'm trying to work out who wears a baby T of Lolita. Because I really really want one. But? It seems rife with...rifeness.
My friend forgot to bring her copy of the Hunger Games to lend me. But it's all ok, because I didn't get called to work today anyway and so had no time to read.
Has anyone here ever read Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin? I read it recently and was sort of blown away by how amazing it was.
Ooh, those are some pretty fantastic book covers!
I haven't read Winter's Tale in about twenty years, but the last time I did it made me cry repeatedly. Parts of it are still vivid in my dreamscapes -- all those turn-of-some-other-century-that-never-quite-was New York winters. And I'd know the Lake of the Coheeries the second I saw it, if I was ever fortunate enough to find it.
I love this site for book shirts: [link]
The kids have already outgrown their pigeon t-shirts, but Kara still has a Viola Swamp sweatshirt.
I did (read a Winter's Tale ), a long time ago, and loved it. On the strength of that, I read Memoir from an Antproof Case when it came out and was disappointed.
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If you read Ellis Island, his early short story collection, you won't be disappointed, not even one tiny bit. And IIRC the novel A Soldier of the Great War is also very not-disappointing; it's not up to Winter's Tale or Ellis Island, but it's much more engaging than Memoir (which I started but had to abandon).