You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.

Willow ,'Sleeper'


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."


Consuela - Dec 07, 2010 7:43:28 pm PST #13115 of 28319
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm following Digger on the web and it's brilliant and heartbreaking (and funny). So good.


sumi - Dec 08, 2010 6:22:17 am PST #13116 of 28319
Art Crawl!!!

Did you guys read about Figment at the NY Times? - an online source for young fans of literature.


Holli - Dec 08, 2010 7:21:01 am PST #13117 of 28319
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

Okay, so I've got $150 in B&N giftcards, between my birthday and Hanukah. What should I get?


Liese S. - Dec 08, 2010 7:21:20 am PST #13118 of 28319
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

A Nook!


Holli - Dec 08, 2010 7:24:00 am PST #13119 of 28319
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

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.


Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2010 7:24:22 am PST #13120 of 28319
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Absolute Sandman.


Barb - Dec 08, 2010 7:28:25 am PST #13121 of 28319
“Not dead yet!”

My book!

Or, barring that, I suggest picking up The Sherlockian. Excellent debut.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2010 7:29:55 am PST #13122 of 28319
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

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.


DavidS - Dec 08, 2010 8:47:05 am PST #13123 of 28319
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

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.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2010 8:48:50 am PST #13124 of 28319
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.