Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


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."


lisah - Nov 30, 2010 11:50:49 am PST #13033 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate

So I was complaining about the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Next the other day (in Natter, I guess), and the good news is, 100+ pages in, stuff finally started happening. But not before several different history lessons!

Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand. So much extra blah blah blah in those books.


DavidS - Nov 30, 2010 11:57:05 am PST #13034 of 28279
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand.

He was dead before they were published so he wasn't really there to work on edits. I think they just took a flier and decided to run them as is.

Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.


lisah - Nov 30, 2010 12:07:51 pm PST #13035 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate

Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.

Yeah, I think this would probably have been the case.


erin_obscure - Dec 01, 2010 7:04:09 am PST #13036 of 28279
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Excitement! I might be getting an e-reader for the winter holidays...i've been doing some research and am totally leaning towards the nook since my library supports it and i *heart* my library. Has anyone used the sharing feature?


§ ita § - Dec 01, 2010 1:00:45 pm PST #13037 of 28279
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

A Fire Upon The Deep getting a sequel. A year from now. I don't want to know this far in advance!

Erin, do you mean the lending feature? Yes, indeedy. That's how I read Mockingbird, and I've lent as well. Which reminds me--I need to send tiggy my contact info, once I remember which email I'm set up with.


-t - Dec 01, 2010 1:06:47 pm PST #13038 of 28279
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

October's less than a year from now! But still too long.

I always think of A Deepness in the Sky as being a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. I don't know why, it clearly isn't, but it fits into that space in my head, somehow.


hippocampus - Dec 01, 2010 3:37:18 pm PST #13039 of 28279
not your mom's socks.

I always think of A Deepness in the Sky as being a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. I don't know why, it clearly isn't, but it fits into that space in my head, somehow.

I am -t in this matter.


erin_obscure - Dec 01, 2010 3:46:03 pm PST #13040 of 28279
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

ita- yes indeedy, the lending feature. you you have to be within a certain range like with pda's or anywhere with wifi connectivity?


Strix - Dec 01, 2010 3:57:46 pm PST #13041 of 28279
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, no, erin. Anyone with, I think, a Barnes and Noble account and lendable ebooks.

I don't have a Nook, but I do have a B&N account, and ebooks, and I lent ita a book. I'm in KC and she's in LA. Easy peasy.

Note: Not all books are lendable.


-t - Dec 01, 2010 4:17:48 pm PST #13042 of 28279
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If there's two of us, maybe we are on to something...