You probably blogged about it!
I just ran a search on my Gmail for "regiment". Apparently I found it preachy and predictable. I'll probably read it again at some point, though.
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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."
Consuela - Apr 15, 2011 8:29:12 am PDT #14426 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Laga - Apr 15, 2011 8:30:29 am PDT #14427 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Do you know what's gone on in Julie Powell's life since then?
Other than taking up butchery I have no idea.
P.M. Marc - Apr 15, 2011 8:35:12 am PDT #14428 of 28293
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I just ran a search on my Gmail for "regiment". Apparently I found it preachy and predictable. I'll probably read it again at some point, though.
It reminded me of my favorite fairy tales, the ones where the girls dressed as boys and did all the rescuing of the kingdom.
I am a TOTAL sucker for that.
Jesse - Apr 15, 2011 8:35:52 am PDT #14429 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe you do or don't want to know, but the butchery was somehow connected to her crazy affair that she had, but now she's back together with the husband from J&J. I think -- I couldn't pay too much attention, but I'm pretty sure that's the gist.
Laga - Apr 15, 2011 8:41:26 am PDT #14430 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yeah, I hadn't heard that. I'm just reading the part where she talks about missing the series finale and I thought oh crap, what if she reads literary buffistas?
I still think reading the recipe before you go shopping is kind of important.
Consuela - Apr 15, 2011 8:43:43 am PDT #14431 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am a TOTAL sucker for that.
Understandable. But IIRC, I thought that, beyond that trope, the characterizations weren't very complicated. But you know, I should reread it instead of keep talking about it. It'll have to wait, though: I'm 1/3 of the way into Hat Full of Sky right now, and I'm sorely tempted to do some filing so I can put on my headphones and listen to more...
P.M. Marc - Apr 15, 2011 8:49:17 am PDT #14432 of 28293
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
They weren't especially, though at a typical level for his lighter-toned work, which this falls into. (Which is why Feet of Clay and Night Watch remain my favorites in Discworld proper.)
Polter-Cow - Apr 15, 2011 9:03:08 am PDT #14433 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Feet of Clay was my least favorite of the Watch books, huh! And I was hoping to love Night Watch more than I actually did, I think.
Laga - Apr 15, 2011 10:03:01 am PDT #14434 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I got one more thing to say about this book and then I'll shut up.
...for nearly eleven months Julia had resided in my brain, in those drafty, capacious, hopeful apartments where the ghost of Santa Claus still placidly rattled about, along with my watchfully dead grandmother, and reincarnation and magic and everything else that couldn't survive out in the brighter hard highways of my mean metropolitan mind.
that's beautiful.
Jessica - Apr 15, 2011 10:08:11 am PDT #14435 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Seriously, NYT? [link]
The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise. While I do not doubt that there are women in the world who read books like Mr. Martin’s, I can honestly say that I have never met a single woman who has stood up in indignation at her book club and refused to read the latest from Lorrie Moore unless everyone agreed to “The Hobbit” first. “Game of Thrones” is boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population’s other half.
Stay classy, Grey Lady.