I got a Helen MacInnes and a John Le Carre, both of which my mother no doubt read.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'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."
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 8:29:06 am PST #13531 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t - Jan 11, 2011 9:19:41 am PST #13532 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I got the same as ita, though I doubt my mother read those.
Jesse - Jan 11, 2011 9:28:34 am PST #13533 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
#1 when I was born was Burr by Gore Vidal, which just makes me think of the commercial with the guy eating peanut butter.
beth b - Jan 11, 2011 9:31:47 am PST #13534 of 28282
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Moonspinners by Mary Stewart is on my list -- one of my favorites by her
Liese S. - Jan 11, 2011 9:49:35 am PST #13535 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Holli, I really really did.
I am Dana wrt King.
flea - Jan 11, 2011 10:18:07 am PST #13536 of 28282
information libertarian
I got Jonathan Livingston Seagull and I'm OK, You're OK. Oh 1972, how you did suck.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 11, 2011 10:28:54 am PST #13537 of 28282
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I got Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills, Agatha Christie- Postern of Fate, The Joy of Sex and The Onion Field. And Pentimento.
Cass - Jan 11, 2011 12:37:23 pm PST #13538 of 28282
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am too much of a chicken to read King.
Oh me too. Except the niecelet gave me some huge more recent book to read. She promised it won't scare me. And my dad seconded the rec, so I will soon have read King beyond On Writing.
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 12:41:13 pm PST #13539 of 28282
Because books.
On Facebook, a friend was looking at the NYT bestsellers the week she was born, and she got a Stephen King book, as did many of us.
Infant.
I got Valley of the Dolls! And Chaim Potok's The Chosen.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2011 12:42:04 pm PST #13540 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Warning to ita about the Dark Tower. One character in that who you will hate worse than a Magical Negro. Well, half a character.