Stephen and Jake used to have cage matches to get to the newest Harry Potter first.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Amy - Jun 25, 2011 11:22:23 am PDT #15414 of 28292
Because books.
Strix - Jun 25, 2011 11:25:22 am PDT #15415 of 28292
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Heh -- I'm still the fastest reader in the fam, but not by a huge margin. My mom's the slowest -- it takes her 2 WHOLE DAYS to get through a book!
If my mom or dad was being stubborn, I'd just wait till they'd gone to bed, and stay up and read whatever I was impatient to get my hot little hands on.
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2011 11:35:12 am PDT #15416 of 28292
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So when I was in Chicago, I visited Myopic Books, which I had visited with Buffistas so many years ago, and I found all four Uglies books in great condition. And since Scott Westerfeld is going to be at Comic-Con, I've been wanting to read them before then. I'm excited!
erikaj - Jun 25, 2011 11:48:12 am PDT #15417 of 28292
Always Anti-fascist!
My theoretical kid would be so sad...my current book is "The Shock Doctrine" and the screwing that's in it isn't the "read the dirty bits," kind.
hippocampus - Jun 25, 2011 1:16:39 pm PDT #15418 of 28292
not your mom's socks.
Well HKF's response to Cass' family bookletting rule was a combo of "you snooze you lose" and "this is really good mom. I'd tell you more but I don't want to spoil it.". Oh child of my heart. Give me back my book.
Laga - Jun 25, 2011 4:20:47 pm PDT #15419 of 28292
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I have to think about my top three secondary worlds.
Kathy A - Jun 26, 2011 2:06:05 am PDT #15420 of 28292
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Re: True Grit--my dad has read the book and now seen both film versions. He loves the book, loved the Wayne version just because it was John Wayne, but after we saw the Coen Brothers version, he walked out of the theatre saying that, as heretical as it was to say it, he thought that their version was the better adaption of the book.
sj - Jun 26, 2011 5:59:06 am PDT #15421 of 28292
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I thought some buffistas might be interested in the woot shirt of the day link.
flea - Jun 27, 2011 2:30:09 am PDT #15422 of 28292
information libertarian
So, I kind of missed the fact that ALA is, for some people, all about rock star author signings and free ARCs! But I timed my discovery right, and met and got books signed by Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants) and Mo Willems (if you don't know who Mo Willems is you must not know any children at all) and saw Kate di Camillo (and, in non-children's news, Beverly Jackson at Harlequin.) And I got an ARC of the new book by the Hugo Cabret guy. It was a lot of fun, although some of the people who were super-organized and had schedules and charts of where to be at what time to meet who and get what books were a little scary.
Jessica - Jun 27, 2011 3:05:12 am PDT #15423 of 28292
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Flea, did you ask Mo Willems when he sleeps? I feel like there's a new Elephant & Piggie book being released every week!