I enjoyed the interview with Collins. And I think her unbendingness on the necessity to kill Prim is very consistent with the article and the Mockingjay!
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
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."
Kat - Apr 10, 2011 5:24:04 pm PDT #14341 of 28290
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
JZ - Apr 11, 2011 6:08:47 am PDT #14342 of 28290
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
anyone who enjoys Hemingway or knowing of him, should pick up THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McClain. It's a novel told from the POV of Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife and chronicles their lives from their first meeting until their divorce. Beautiful story.
JZ's mom concurs heartily with Barb.
Barb - Apr 11, 2011 6:41:39 am PDT #14343 of 28290
“Not dead yet!”
JZ's mom concurs heartily with Barb.
Yep, yep-- JZ's mom pretty much nailed it.
Laga - Apr 11, 2011 6:49:26 am PDT #14344 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It's on the list.
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 7:36:05 am PDT #14345 of 28290
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.
JZ's mom is a good reviewer. But why all the hy-phens?
JZ - Apr 11, 2011 7:47:52 am PDT #14346 of 28290
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm not seeing any hyphens at all. What browser are you using? On a Mac or PC? Her webmaster (aka her genius son-in-law) can look into it and see if there's some wonky translational issue.
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 7:52:26 am PDT #14347 of 28290
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.
Chrome on Windows XP (latest Chrome, XP fully patched and updated). Here is the first sentence as my browser renders it:
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Paula McLain has written a rather spec-tac-u-lar piece of his-tor-i-cal fiction in her render-ing of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway.
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But if I cut and paste on B.org it pastes as:
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Paula McLain has written a rather spectacular piece of historical fiction in her rendering of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway.
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No added hyphens. So some weird interaction between my browser and OS and the stie.
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 7:56:54 am PDT #14348 of 28290
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.
I wonder what the entry_wrap_class in the code does, and if that might have something to do with it.
JZ - Apr 11, 2011 8:10:48 am PDT #14349 of 28290
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
H'm. I'll ask the BIL to poke around a bit.
Laga - Apr 11, 2011 10:54:19 am PDT #14350 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
As I'm reading "Mark Reads The Book Thief" I'm thinking perhaps my assessment of the writing style was off base. Now I feel like Death's unusual prose is preparing us so that by the time we get to "The Standover Man" we're used to the odd format of the book and instead of puzzling over how this picture book just showed up in the middle of the story, we simply accept it and can absorb the beauty of the story without being distracted by how it's presented.