Looks like it was, in fact, A Discovery of Witches.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
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."
megan walker - May 05, 2011 5:24:34 pm PDT #14587 of 28297
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Strix - May 05, 2011 6:01:02 pm PDT #14588 of 28297
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read it...and can't remember what it was about. Quite bland.
megan walker - May 05, 2011 6:22:18 pm PDT #14589 of 28297
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Classics besides Jane Austen that pass the Bechdel Test:
The Awakening
Cold Comfort Farm
Gone with the Wind
The Group
Howards End
Jane Eyre
Les Misérables
Little Women
Rebecca
A Room with a View
I’m pretty sure a number of Zola and Balzac novels would pass the test.
Amy - May 05, 2011 6:31:14 pm PDT #14590 of 28297
Because books.
Wow, I haven't read The Group in years. I had forgotten about that book.
Gris - May 06, 2011 4:32:23 am PDT #14591 of 28297
Hey. New board.
Does anyone know what book this is describing?
Definitely A Discovery of Witches. My wife loved the book inordinately.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 7:41:27 am PDT #14592 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Harry Potter people help me out?
I was listening to the audiobook of Prisoner of Azkaban last night and what's on my iPod ended with the chapter titled "Hermione's Secret", in which Harry & Hermione go back in time to save Buckbeak and Sirius. The very last bit ends with Sirius & Buckbeak flying away.
There is another chapter after that, isn't there?
Dana - May 09, 2011 7:42:33 am PDT #14593 of 28297
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Has to be. Harry says goodbye to Remus, for example.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 8:00:28 am PDT #14594 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Harry says goodbye to Remus, for example.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I shall have to wait until I get home to see what's on my hard drive, or if somehow the file with that chapter in it got lost.
I was hoping to start Goblet of Fire during lunch--I guess I can still do that...
Polgara - May 09, 2011 8:04:13 am PDT #14595 of 28297
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
There's also Snape flipping out like a mammal when he realizes Sirius has escaped. Love that part.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 9:08:29 am PDT #14596 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'd forgotten, frankly, quite how awful Snape is in this book. There's no "he's just misunderstood" interpretation here--he's petty, vindictive, unprofessional, and abusive; has no ability to consider objectively the possibility that he's wrong, and spends an inordinate amount of time fixated on a nearly 20-year-old grudge.
And people love this character. Want to marry him on the astral plane!
The other issue I've noted is how comprehensively Rowling deconstructs any idea that the adult world can be trusted to implement justice, or protect the innocent. Every institution of the Wizarding world fails Harry and his friends: the school, the criminal justice system, even family.
And of course the Muggle world has failed Harry as well--nobody ever noticed that a pre-teen was half-starved and abused in the Dursley household? Nobody ever called CPS?
It's really a terribly depressing indictment of human institutions.