And, not on the NYRB list, but one of my all-time favorite comic novels and somehow little known: My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket.
See the customer reviews.
Tara: That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and... are a total dork... Riley: Then how come Xander didn't laugh?
'Selfless'
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."
DavidS - Feb 02, 2011 7:21:04 pm PST #13820 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
megan walker - Feb 02, 2011 7:23:41 pm PST #13821 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Okay, but have you read this cult classic about the Opera?
No, but that reminds me that I need to order my opera tickets for this fall.
Pix - Feb 02, 2011 7:52:24 pm PST #13822 of 28282
The status is NOT quo.
Okay, I love the internet: Hot Guys Reading Books.
beth b - Feb 02, 2011 8:47:01 pm PST #13823 of 28282
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yum
javachik - Feb 02, 2011 9:11:23 pm PST #13824 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
Oh I love teh interwebs. I've been trying to remember a book that scared the crap out of me as a kid and finally found it: "The Elementals" by Michael McDowell (who also wrote "The Amulet"). I loved those spooky trade paperbacks. Anyone else read it?
Vonnie K - Feb 03, 2011 6:09:44 am PST #13825 of 28282
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Okay, I love the internet: Hot Guys Reading Books.
Heee! I just spent a pleasant few minutes scrolling back a few months. This entry in particular made me smile THHHHHIISS WIDE: [link]
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2011 7:24:13 am PST #13826 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, that tumblr weirds me out. Because there are people taking pictures of strangers and submitting them, and that's odd.
Not that they're all, but some.
DavidS - Feb 03, 2011 7:34:05 am PST #13827 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and that's odd.
How is that odd? There's a long tradition of street photography. Nobody's running around getting releases signed by everybody they shoot on the street.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2011 7:39:45 am PST #13828 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So because people do it I should be comfortable with it? Way to go to set a personal barometer.
I am hesitant about taking pictures of strangers, and I would have a minor freakout if I found a picture of myself posted in a blog with commentary and reblogs and likes and the like.
Scrappy - Feb 03, 2011 7:51:32 am PST #13829 of 28282
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.