Also, it's the book where Neville and Ginny and Luna are awesome, so that helps.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Dana - Aug 08, 2011 3:18:49 pm PDT #15883 of 28293
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Polter-Cow - Aug 08, 2011 5:13:46 pm PDT #15884 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Except that she didn't think that maybe Snape was faking when he said that he had no idea what Harry was talking about when he tried to tell him about Sirius.
True, but I'm not sure whether that would have changed anything. They still would have gone to the Department of Mysteries, in case he wasn't.
Also, it's the book where Neville and Ginny and Luna are awesome, so that helps.
It does. Ginny is pretty great in this book too. She's all wisecracking and being good at spells and flying and shit.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2011 6:08:31 am PDT #15885 of 28293
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Which would be more meaningful in retrospect if he didn't just continue on with the information-withholding and failure to trust Harry with his plans and ideas for the next year.
I did like the fact that JKR addressed this in DH, when she has Aberforth state that secrets and lies were the way that the Dumbledore boys were raised, and that Albus embraced it.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2011 6:18:54 am PDT #15886 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I did like the fact that JKR addressed this in DH, when she has Aberforth state that secrets and lies were the way that the Dumbledore boys were raised, and that Albus embraced it.
Right. I always thought a lot of the dynamics in that family looked like a family where one of the parents is an alcoholic. Which isn't how it maps to the story, but those sibling relationships that are involved with concealing family stories and resentment about leaving vs. caretaking has a Children of Alcoholics vibe to me.
sumi - Aug 10, 2011 3:06:10 pm PDT #15887 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
GRRM is going to read a selection from Winds of Winter at Worldcon.
Rayne - Aug 10, 2011 3:07:10 pm PDT #15888 of 28293
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Is it wrong that I want to sneak into his house and chain him to his computer?
sumi - Aug 10, 2011 3:09:20 pm PDT #15889 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Well, he's still doing the ADWD publicity tour. (And at least he has selections to read.)
-t - Aug 10, 2011 3:14:02 pm PDT #15890 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Is it wrong that I'm kind of tempted to go to Reno? I'm not much of a con-goer, though.
sumi - Aug 10, 2011 3:15:34 pm PDT #15891 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
I know! I want to know what happens next!
(He says that it's easy to get in the day of .. . )
Amy - Aug 10, 2011 3:16:15 pm PDT #15892 of 28293
Because books.
Someone on G+ posted a question asking for everyone's favorite children's book, and listed To Kill a Mockingbird. I love that book, but I wouldn't call it a children's book, right?