'Not Fade Away'
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."
Most of Georgette Heyer's e-books are on sale this week for $1.99 for her birthday.
oh, fun! What shall I buy, there's too much to pick from! I got The Black Moth recently, and I have Masqueraders and The Grand Sophy in paperback.
Anyone have suggestions?
Cotillion, Talisman Ring, Frederica and False Colors are some of my faves.
Most of Georgette Heyer's e-books are on sale this week for $1.99 for her birthday.
Oooh. Time to go pick up These Old Shades, and maybe The Talisman Ring.
Ooh, here's something to rile people up:
Overrated: Authors, critics, and editors on "great books" that aren't all that great.
Dwight Garner, book critic for the New York Times
The book I'll reluctantly fire from my canon is Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. Every five years or so I pick up Walter Starkie's 1957 translation, which my wife has enthusiastically devoured twice, and, struck by Cervantes' lively and multijointed prose, get a bit excited. In the margins I'll write, "He's the world's first great food writer," underlining a passage on Page One in which he goes on about pigeon, tripe, and salted beef and mutton. Genius! Here's the man who popularized the phrase "the proof's in the pudding"! The momentum slowly fades; the blood drains from my face; was that a news alert on my iPhone? I'm asleep on the couch, deeply ashamed but contentedly drooling, by Page 37.
I'm about a quarter of the way into Patrick Rothfuss' In the Name of the Wind and I am loving it so much!
Ooh, here's something to rile people up:
That's a standard Slate technique: slap a contrarian headline on an otherwise uncontroversial article, to gather links. Or on an article that takes a contrarian stand.
I mean, this is the website that gave us a two page article on the horrors of pie.
I'm about a quarter of the way into Patrick Rothfuss' In the Name of the Wind and I am loving it so much!
It's good stuff! It gets better!
That's a standard Slate technique: slap a contrarian headline on an otherwise uncontroversial article, to gather links. Or on an article that takes a contrarian stand.
Heh. Yeah, the actual article itself wasn't super inflammatory.
Gravity's Rainbow sure took a beating, though.
Gravity's Rainbow sure took a beating, though.
All of it deserved.
Not sure whether this belongs here or in Fanfiction or Natter:
The first screenshots from Pottermore have been posted.