x posted with Bitches... I seem to have written a what's on your bookshelf post - I'm worried I sound like a wackaloon (more than usual). [link]
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
hippocampus - May 14, 2011 5:34:31 am PDT #14702 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
DavidS - May 14, 2011 5:40:45 am PDT #14703 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You don't sound like a wackaloon; you sound like a bibliophile.
Rudyard Kipling at 23 hunts down Samuel Clemens.
Heh...
Have you ever, encumbered with great-coat and valise, tried to dodge diversely-minded locomotives when the sun was shining in your eyes?
No, sir, I have not!
There's a great account by Kipling of coming to San Francisco and meeting two office girls at work and his portrait of them is so fond and besotted with their liveliness and bold independence.
hippocampus - May 14, 2011 5:44:35 am PDT #14704 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
You don't sound like a wackaloon; you sound like a bibliophile.::grin:: thank you.
Kate P. - May 14, 2011 6:27:56 am PDT #14705 of 28293
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Sox, I just discovered Cat Valente recently too! She has a middle grade novel coming out this month, I think, called The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and it's fantastic. Now I need to track down everything else she's written...
Steph L. - May 14, 2011 6:40:51 am PDT #14706 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, go read her Palimpsest! That's how I first found her. And "The Girl Who Circumnavigated..." is referred to in Palimpsest, which predates "The Girl..."
"The Girl..." wasn't originally intended to ever be written, but she started it as a project on LJ as a way to earn income, and then a publisher picked it up. I forgot that it was coming out as a book in its own right; I need to pick it up.
Anyway, read Palimpsest. It's lovely and mind-blowing.
hippocampus - May 14, 2011 6:46:46 am PDT #14707 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
I'm looking forward to reading Fairyland, and now Palimpsest too!
sumi - May 14, 2011 7:11:01 am PDT #14708 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I almost ordered "The Girl who Circumnavigated..." based on a Tweet from Kate P earlier this week - but now you guys have forced me to order that and Palimpsest.
sumi - May 14, 2011 7:11:01 am PDT #14709 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Kate P. - May 14, 2011 8:17:42 am PDT #14710 of 28293
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
sumi, do you mean another Kate P or someone else? I love love love The Girl Who Circumnavigated... , but I'm not on Twitter.
I will definitely have to check out Palimpsest now! And I have Deathless as well, which I would like to get to sometime this summer.
Amy - May 14, 2011 8:23:23 am PDT #14711 of 28293
Because books.
This looks like a lot of fun, too -- a YAish novel that uses found pictures, from Quirk Books. The prologue and first chapter are up here to sample.