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.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2010 11:17:18 am PDT #12587 of 28626
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
zuisa - Oct 08, 2010 11:48:19 am PDT #12588 of 28626
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
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.
JZ - Oct 08, 2010 11:53:30 am PDT #12589 of 28626
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
zuisa - Oct 08, 2010 11:56:19 am PDT #12590 of 28626
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Ooh, those are some pretty fantastic book covers!
JZ - Oct 08, 2010 11:57:07 am PDT #12591 of 28626
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
Deena - Oct 08, 2010 11:58:10 am PDT #12592 of 28626
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
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.
-t - Oct 08, 2010 11:59:18 am PDT #12593 of 28626
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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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JZ - Oct 08, 2010 12:06:32 pm PDT #12594 of 28626
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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).
Scrappy - Oct 08, 2010 12:06:50 pm PDT #12595 of 28626
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
LOVE Winter's Tale.
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2010 12:08:45 pm PDT #12596 of 28626
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Those book shirts are tempting, but I already have Attack of Literacy (which I have been photographed wearing in many, many locales), the semi-colon (goodness, I never noticed what a little potbelly I have in that picture!), and El Vetica. I already have the wordnerd trifecta.
(I also now have Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman t-shirts. I can literally get my geek on almost every day of the week.)