Buffistas

Raise your hand if 'ew.'

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'

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."

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Kat - Feb 06, 2011 2:47:39 pm PST #13902 of 28282

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Megan, What about Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery who wrote the Hedgehog book. Which I didn't love, but I did like Gourmet Rhapsody.

Also, (not a food book) but by the same imprint, I'm reading A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse. Have you read it?

megan walker - Feb 06, 2011 6:07:29 pm PST #13903 of 28282

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

What about Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery who wrote the Hedgehog book. Which I didn't love, but I did like Gourmet Rhapsody.

Good to know. I came across that but dismissed it because I had put down Hedgehog after just a couple of pages.

I haven't read the other, but it would be perfect for our "Books and the Bookish" salon, for which I'm reading a few short things including The Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, and maybe Miss Pym Disposes.

Frankenbuddha - Feb 07, 2011 3:55:59 am PST #13904 of 28282

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The Banana Breakfast early into Gravity's Rainbow is memorable. Though it is but one long scene.

Unfortunately there's that OTHER eating scene in there.

As for Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has some lovely descriptions of chocolate (and other sweets).

Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2011 4:05:02 am PST #13905 of 28282

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.

megan walker - Feb 07, 2011 5:06:17 am PST #13906 of 28282

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Cryptonomicon has an entire chapter devoted to Cap'n Crunch.

If only that were food.

sumi - Feb 07, 2011 6:30:01 am PST #13907 of 28282

Art Crawl!!!

Random House tweeted the sad news that author Brian Jacques has died.

Scrappy - Feb 07, 2011 7:26:04 am PST #13908 of 28282

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

it would be perfect for our "Books and the Bookish" salon

One of my favorite novels about books is Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley. [link] Utterly charming with a 39-year-old heroine who is smart, brave, determined and funny. It's actually one of my favorite books ever.

Aims - Feb 08, 2011 2:35:34 pm PST #13909 of 28282

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I just read Knuffle Bunny Free to Em for the first time.

Not on, Aimee, sobbing as you read to your child. Not on.

Hayden - Feb 08, 2011 4:32:03 pm PST #13910 of 28282

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Oh jeez, Aimee, that one could make Lee Marvin bawl.

Jessica - Feb 09, 2011 4:20:52 am PST #13911 of 28282

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oh Aims, I'm sorry - if I'd known I would have warned you!

(Seriously, anyone else with appropriately aged children for this book - you will need at LEAST three practice reads in order to get through it without bawling. Take the book with you into the bathroom and read it out loud in front of the mirror. You'll thank me later.)

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