I'm following Digger on the web and it's brilliant and heartbreaking (and funny). So good.
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."
Did you guys read about Figment at the NY Times? - an online source for young fans of literature.
Okay, so I've got $150 in B&N giftcards, between my birthday and Hanukah. What should I get?
A Nook!
I am too attached to paper books, I think. For instance, I know I'm getting this monster 700-page fashion history book from the Kyoto Costume Institute.
Absolute Sandman.
My book!
Or, barring that, I suggest picking up The Sherlockian. Excellent debut.
You should get a Criterion box set of some kind. Maybe something out of the Eclipse series.
And then The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Charles de Lint's new novel gets an intriguing review at IO9.
I wonder how that'll play in fandom after the RaceFail discussion since it features an Asian-American lead and it's set in a Latino barrio and uses elements of both Asian (dragons) and Southwestern (skinwalkers) lore.
Well, if the review is accurate, I hope it will just be the appropriation loonies bitching.
Uh, I don't have too much patience for some of the louder components of the fandom social justice brigade.