I remember this kid called me a faggot in 3rd grade and I was SO confused, because my reading had only taught me a faggot was a bundle of wood.
I was all "How is this an insult? Huh?"
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
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."
Strix - Mar 08, 2011 4:47:47 pm PST #14060 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 5:19:03 pm PST #14061 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Growing up in Jamaica, the shit we had and didn't have meant really random hits with kids books. In some ways, the colonial stories set in India were closest except! Foreign languages! Religion! Tigers and elephants! But the food was closest, and I think that was what I cared about most.
Kathy A - Mar 08, 2011 6:50:39 pm PST #14062 of 28286
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know I loved the Little House books but that was because of the other worldliness.
I also loved the other worldliness of those books, but I think I really connected with them because both Laura and Mary were so real. LIW did a great job of showing us what their characters were all about, as well as everyone else, that when I finally saw real photos of the people at the time of those books, I wasn't surprised at all.
There was a great photo taken after the Long Winter of the three older girls (Mary, Laura, and Carrie), and it wraps up all three of them at that time in one snapshot. Mary is stoic and calmly seated, with her lips firmly pressed together and hands correctly crossed, the epitome of the proper young 19th century woman, Carrie looks frail and weak, obviously still suffering from the harshness of the recently passed season, and Laura stands with her eyes flashing and her fist clenched, just as I always pictured her.
DavidS - Mar 08, 2011 7:00:28 pm PST #14063 of 28286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There was a great photo
That's a lot of gingham.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2011 7:02:43 pm PST #14064 of 28286
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The original junta.
sumi - Mar 09, 2011 6:01:56 am PST #14065 of 28286
Art Crawl!!!
Librarything is cataloging the International Space Station's library.
Polter-Cow - Mar 10, 2011 7:37:26 am PST #14066 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished Late Eclipses, the latest Toby Daye novel, and it's definitely my favorite since the first, especially because it's got the sort of HSQ that's been set up since the beginning, which makes me all kinds of excited for the HSQ in store for the future. Breadcrumbs everywhere!
Toddson - Mar 10, 2011 7:56:33 am PST #14067 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh dear ... I hope you weren't reading it in bed
Polter-Cow - Mar 10, 2011 7:59:21 am PST #14068 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's okay; they were eaten by the plot bunnies.
Atropa - Mar 10, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #14069 of 28286
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I found a copy of Tanith Lee's Dark Dance at Half Price Books and bought it with some vague memory that this was a favorite of Jilli's.
Book one of the Blood Opera sequence! Maaaan, I wish some publishing house would put out book four.