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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Amy - May 27, 2011 10:26:21 am PDT #14961 of 28288
Because books.

There were a couple books publishers were really pushing on Tuesday at BEA, and three of them might be of interest:

Eoin Colfer's first adult novel, Plugged. (He is adorable, small, with bright white hair and a beautiful Irish speaking voice, by the way.)

The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles, a first-time novelist who seems terribly Back Bay. It's about a young woman in 1938 Manhattan, and looks really good. Beautiful cover, too.

The Snow Child, by another first-timer, Eowyn (!) Ivey, a native Alaskan. It's set in 1920s Alaska, too.

Kathy A - May 27, 2011 10:32:43 am PDT #14962 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

At my first BEA in 1999, they were handing out a new book by an author nobody had heard of: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Four months later, it hit the #1 on the bestseller list.

Typo Boy - May 27, 2011 10:36:07 am PDT #14963 of 28288
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.

Back Bay?

Amy - May 27, 2011 10:43:19 am PDT #14964 of 28288
Because books.

Old Boston money, in other words.

Typo Boy - May 27, 2011 10:57:54 am PDT #14965 of 28288
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.

Thanks. Suspect that past a certain distance from Boston not a well known phrase. This California boy (who lived in Houston and currently lives in Washington State) never heard it before. So the "Back Bay Books" imprint was boasting of the wealth of its founders? Which come to think of it is not very Back Bay... Or maybe it was founded by working class Bostonians who were being ironic.

Amy - May 27, 2011 11:08:53 am PDT #14966 of 28288
Because books.

Back Bay is also a historic, officially recognized neighborhood in Boston.

Typo Boy - May 27, 2011 11:10:47 am PDT #14967 of 28288
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.

OK. Totally revealing my ignorance of Boston today.

Kat - May 30, 2011 6:40:29 am PDT #14968 of 28288
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I've just read Insatiable which is the most silly and enjoyable book. Highly recommend!

Hil R. - May 30, 2011 12:39:58 pm PDT #14969 of 28288
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm halfway through Order of the Phoenix on my re-read. How does Harry get the Marauders Map back? The fake Moody takes it in Goblet of Fire, and there's no mention of Harry getting it back, but he has it again in OotP.

DavidS - May 30, 2011 5:09:18 pm PDT #14970 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

How does Harry get the Marauders Map back?

Remus gives it back to him at the end of the book.

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