Did you guys read about Figment at the NY Times? - an online source for young fans of literature.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
sumi - Dec 08, 2010 6:22:17 am PST #13116 of 28758
Art Crawl!!!
Holli - Dec 08, 2010 7:21:01 am PST #13117 of 28758
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 28758
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
A Nook!
Holli - Dec 08, 2010 7:24:00 am PST #13119 of 28758
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 28758
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
Absolute Sandman.
Barb - Dec 08, 2010 7:28:25 am PST #13121 of 28758
“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 28758
"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 28758
"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 28758
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.
Connie Neil - Dec 08, 2010 9:14:50 am PST #13125 of 28758
brillig
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.
Is the argument that no one gets to use folklore unless they're a member of the group that originated the folklore?