Diana Gabaldon was the opening speaker for the RWA conference last week, and I missed it! She was apparently hilarious.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
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 06, 2011 6:11:56 am PDT #15588 of 28342
Because books.
Fred Pete - Jul 06, 2011 6:56:58 am PDT #15589 of 28342
Ann, that's a ferret.
Yeah, won't argue about his other novels.
I just looked up Conroy on Wikipedia. South of Broad is his first novel since Beach Music. Huh.
Polter-Cow - Jul 06, 2011 8:00:41 am PDT #15590 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, I'm into the third chapter of OOTP, and, oh boy, this sure is the one where Harry is ANGRY ALL THE TIME. Twenty-two discs to go!
Steph L. - Jul 06, 2011 8:24:03 am PDT #15591 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just looked up Conroy on Wikipedia. South of Broad is his first novel since Beach Music. Huh.
Yeah, he wrote a memoir and, I think, a cookbook in between them.
Hayden - Jul 06, 2011 8:57:20 am PDT #15592 of 28342
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh boy, Knuffle Bunny Free. That one is a parent-killer.
DawnK - Jul 06, 2011 9:34:09 am PDT #15593 of 28342
giraffe mode
Oh boy, Knuffle Bunny Free. That one is a parent-killer.
I was an idiot and read it stadning in the children's section at B&N - I don't even HAVE little kids, but it gutted me. I made my 19 y.o. daughter read it.
Toddson - Jul 06, 2011 10:27:07 am PDT #15594 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Mother-daughter bonding at its sniffliest?
DawnK - Jul 06, 2011 11:13:38 am PDT #15595 of 28342
giraffe mode
Mother-daughter bonding at its sniffliest?
Yes! I got "God MOM! Why did you make me read that? Can we get it?"
askye - Jul 06, 2011 5:42:50 pm PDT #15596 of 28342
Thrive to spite them
Another children's book that made me cry - Peach and Blue. Mom bought for me when I was an adult because SHE read it in the store and cried.
Actually she was in the bookstore and another woman was holding the book and crying and Mom asked her if she was okay. And the woman told her about Peach and Blue, so Mom read it and started crying and then gave it to me. And then I tell people about it with the thought they'll read it and cry.
Here's the book [link]
It's about a frog named Blue and a Peach named Peach and the cover is a picture from one of the saddest and sweetest parts of the book.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2011 6:20:24 pm PDT #15597 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
( Hotel New Hampshire seems to hit ALL the themes)
Yeah, Irving wrapped up all his thematic hobby horses with one big bow in that one, and then went off to play with new toys. Bears, Austria, Whores, Wrestling...