Heh!
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
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."
Typo Boy - Oct 27, 2010 8:17:18 pm PDT #12749 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.
Toddson - Oct 28, 2010 1:32:23 pm PDT #12750 of 28293
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hello! I'm trying to catch up ... let me see ...
I was too old for the Sweet Valley High books, my sister was the horse-crazy one, but I ended up reading a lot of her horse books, I read Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, the entire Oz series (or at least everything they had in the public library), my father had subscriptions to Galaxy, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, plus all his books from after 1949 (the year everything went up in flames in a house fire).
In new news - I found the new Bujold book, scooped it up, and ran home and read it pretty much in the space of a day. I plan to go back and re-read it at leisure. Armsman Roic is an important part of the story and has some good lines.
Laga - Oct 28, 2010 1:46:52 pm PDT #12751 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
-t - Oct 28, 2010 1:48:12 pm PDT #12752 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oooh, new Vorkosigan book? Yay!
Hil R. - Oct 28, 2010 1:53:16 pm PDT #12753 of 28293
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I read it a few years ago, and a friend's daughter started reading it a few weeks after I did. The friend, who is Catholic, asked me if there was anything in there that she should be concerned about. I told her what the plot was up to the point where I'd read, and had her read one or two pages that I thought were particularly anti-Catholic. She said that was fine for her ten-year-old to read, though she was glad to be aware of it to be able to discuss it with her. I kept up with giving her warnings on stuff as I got to it, and though there were a few parts that she thought might be too scary, I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2010 1:54:49 pm PDT #12754 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I didn't really see what was so controversial about it.
I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
But, yeah, anything that would be is in the third book.
zuisa - Oct 29, 2010 2:58:28 am PDT #12755 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I have only read the first book (I have been meaning to get around to the next two, but I just haven't gotten a hold of them) and I definitely agree that the first book had nothing very controversial, but it is a really fantastic book.
sumi - Oct 29, 2010 4:30:26 am PDT #12756 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Interview with Rita Mae Brown - at the Chronicle of the Horse.
sumi - Oct 29, 2010 7:37:54 am PDT #12757 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, Dennis Lehane has a new book coming out next week - a follow-up to Gone, Baby, Gone.
Jesse - Oct 29, 2010 8:06:21 am PDT #12758 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, really? I thought he was done with Patrick and Angela.