snerk ... I ran across this gem.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
Toddson - Jun 17, 2011 12:17:40 pm PDT #15364 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sumi - Jun 17, 2011 4:45:00 pm PDT #15365 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
Inn at the Crossroads - a blog with recipes from A Song of Ice and Fire.
DavidS - Jun 18, 2011 6:22:12 am PDT #15366 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Guardian asked authors to write about their most vividly remembered holiday read.
They're all pretty great though I particularly like AS Byatt and Antonia Fraser's contributions. Fascinating to see the mix of memory, reading and landscape come together.
Jesse - Jun 19, 2011 4:42:58 am PDT #15367 of 28289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyone who is at all interested in especially 80s Hollywood gossip has got to read Rob Lowe's autobiography. It's great! It really is all these great stories (some of which are really unbelievable), with not a ton of introspection, but that seems like the way he is, basically -- he kind of goes along and looks on the bright side and that kind of thing.
sj - Jun 20, 2011 10:46:29 am PDT #15368 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Neil Gaiman linked to a blog with posts about weird things customers say in a bookstore. It's hysterical. link
Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:14 pm PDT #15369 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History [link]
Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway: “As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”
Liese S. - Jun 20, 2011 5:50:59 pm PDT #15370 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
bells, balls and bulls
Hahahah that's so great.
Laga - Jun 21, 2011 7:33:43 am PDT #15371 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Customer: I read a book in the eighties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?
I had that one too, they were handing them out on campus, my first day of college.
sumi - Jun 21, 2011 11:02:35 am PDT #15372 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
New cover for Persuasion - ???
Consuela - Jun 21, 2011 11:37:52 am PDT #15373 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
wth, sumi? That makes very little sense to me, and it certainly doesn't look like Anne.