Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.

Trick ,'First Date'


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."


brenda m - Sep 29, 2006 9:59:24 am PDT #1281 of 28143
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Thanks for that link, Corwood.


Hayden - Sep 29, 2006 10:27:32 am PDT #1282 of 28143
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

My pleasure.


QueenElizabeth - Sep 29, 2006 8:59:03 pm PDT #1283 of 28143

it looks like all three books are coming out in a month or two span (the last book is streetdated for Halloween).

Ohhhh... I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy the next ones will be out so soon after! I'm a binge Nora Roberts fan - I go through spurts of reading many of her books at once, and then I have to take a break. Right now I'm finishing the O'Hurley series and probably won't come back to her for a while - at least until the next ones in the vamp love series come out.

In fact it's because of NR that I haven't read any of the books in my to-read pile...


Atropa - Sep 30, 2006 9:43:43 pm PDT #1284 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

La la la. My copy of the new Terry Pratchett novel Wintersmith turned up in the mail today. It was wonderful. I really do think Tiffany is my favorite character of his.


Sheryl - Oct 01, 2006 5:03:21 am PDT #1285 of 28143
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

:whimper:

I told myself to wait until the next con to buy Wintersmith. That's just under three weeks away. sigh...


Steph L. - Oct 01, 2006 8:11:35 am PDT #1286 of 28143
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Jilli, I cannot recommend The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Even as a huge comics fan, I can't recommend it. "Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.

Stoner & Spaz, by Ron Koertge, did the trope of geeky-outsider-boy-meets-edgy-rebellious-girl MUCH better.

And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.


Atropa - Oct 01, 2006 9:20:52 am PDT #1287 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

"Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.

Gnnnng. Okay then, I'll give it a miss.


beth b - Oct 01, 2006 4:30:35 pm PDT #1288 of 28143
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Stoner & Spaz was much better than I expected it to be. well done.


lisah - Oct 02, 2006 4:46:46 am PDT #1289 of 28143
Punishingly Intricate

And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.

I'm enjoying King Dork pretty well so far. But I'm only 100 or so pages in.


DawnK - Oct 02, 2006 6:08:58 am PDT #1290 of 28143
giraffe mode

King Dork

I enjoyed it. Not my favorite of all time but very enjoyable.