Neil Gaiman tweeted this piece about the bestseller list by Michael Dirda.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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 - Jul 05, 2011 4:18:38 pm PDT #15564 of 28348
Because books.
Volans - Jul 05, 2011 5:21:07 pm PDT #15565 of 28348
move out and draw fire
Books that make me sob? Apparently The Dog That Wouldn't Be.
This is a favorite book of my DH, my sister, and her two kids. So when I saw it on the bookshelf in my room at my sister's, I pulled it down for bedtime reading.
But first, because it's a dog book, and I had a suspicion, I flipped to the last page (I NEVER do this), read just that page, sobbed like a baby, and spent the rest of the week eyeing the book like it was a rattlesnake curled up on the nightstand.
DebetEsse - Jul 05, 2011 5:36:52 pm PDT #15566 of 28348
Woe to the fucking wicked.
What is it with dog books?
Aims - Jul 05, 2011 5:44:02 pm PDT #15567 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Lately, kids books have been making me cry. Not YA, but children's books. The latest being Knuffle Bunny 3 for which I was not spoiled and read it to Em as my first time reading it. Poor girl. Also, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech - again with the dogs.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood gets me every time and I read that at least twice a year. Specifically, the story when Vivi looses her basket on Sidda, Baylor, Little Shep, and Lulu.
DebetEsse - Jul 05, 2011 5:47:17 pm PDT #15568 of 28348
Woe to the fucking wicked.
for which I was not spoiled and read it to Em as my first time reading it.
I'm going to have to call this a Poor Life Choice.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2011 5:52:01 pm PDT #15569 of 28348
There was this book about a orange tabby tripod cat? And about a hedgehog. Hedgie? And then a book I swear was an LM Montgomery novel (Wives of the Club in the title maybe?) but I can't source it.
Ahrg. But that was years ago. I actually don't turn to books for a crying catharsis anymore. When I need to break, I just think about my parents aging. Ahhhhrg.
Aims - Jul 05, 2011 5:53:55 pm PDT #15570 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm going to have to call this a Poor Life Choice.
Indeed. Sobbbing mommies at bedtime are never a good thing.
Amy - Jul 05, 2011 5:54:01 pm PDT #15571 of 28348
Because books.
I don't ever go to books looking for the cry/catharsis, but if the story genuinely delivers, I'm glad to have it. Once, anyway.
Kat - Jul 05, 2011 5:54:44 pm PDT #15572 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Dead Dog Books are their own subgenre.
Connie Neil - Jul 05, 2011 6:03:20 pm PDT #15573 of 28348
brillig
"I didn't cry when Ol' Yeller died."