cool!
First of all, 'Posse?' Passé
Cordelia ,'Potential'
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."
Laga - Oct 21, 2010 6:59:27 pm PDT #12732 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 10:40:52 pm PDT #12733 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Black Gold is about Black Gold - who won the Kentucky Derby in 1923. He was sired by Black Toney (Col. Bradley named all his horses with "B" names) out of a mare called Useeit.
sumi - Oct 22, 2010 5:26:47 am PDT #12734 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
A new illustrated edition of the Louisa May Alcott short story, "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving."
Whatever happened with the publication of her sister's journal from when she studied art in Paris?
Consuela - Oct 22, 2010 8:38:09 am PDT #12735 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, boo, I missed the Marguerite Henry squee. I read everything I could get my hands on by Henry and Farley and Kjellgard--dogs and horses were my go-to books until I got into junior high and discovered historicals and SF/F. And then it was Olivia Coolidge and Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Moccasin Trail and Mara Daughter of the Nile) and Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Andre Norton.
I am 45 and was in college when the Sweetvalley High books came out, so I've never even picked one up.
Calli - Oct 22, 2010 9:24:16 am PDT #12736 of 28293
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think I've read most of the horse books mentioned here. I wasn't very horsey, but my older sister was and got a lot of horse-related books. And if a book came into our home I probably at least tried to read it. (Didn't always make it through Dad's westerns.)
zuisa - Oct 22, 2010 9:26:17 am PDT #12737 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I honestly don't think I ever read any horse books, which makes absolutely no sense because I wanted to take horsback riding lessons in the worst way possible when I was about 12. I'm sure I read a couple, but... it's so strange that they somehow slipped by me.
Laga - Oct 22, 2010 9:30:07 am PDT #12738 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It's never too late!
If you're in the mood for something less YA, Richard Adams' Traveller is a wonderful look at the US civil war told from the point of view of Robert E Lee's horse.
Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2010 7:21:18 pm PDT #12739 of 28293
brillig
Mara Daughter of the Nile
Loved that book! There weren't many YA books set in Egypt, but I read that one and one about Tut and his wife from when they were kids to when they died.
Polter-Cow - Oct 23, 2010 9:48:51 am PDT #12740 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Have any Buffistas read One Con Glory? It's a geek romantic comedy set a comic book convention. Here's an excerpt. I really enjoyed it. It was a quick, fun read about a relationship where one's stance on whether Buffy should end up with Angel or Spike is relevant. Also, in the Extras section, the characters name their favorite Buffy episode. (One of them picks "Doublemeat Palace.")
Typo Boy - Oct 23, 2010 12:49:00 pm PDT #12741 of 28293
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
one's stance on whether Buffy should end up with Angel or Spike is relevant.
Don't know enough about the Immortal to be sure, but sounded to me like Buffy was better off dating him than either Angel or Spike.