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.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
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."
Atropa - Aug 15, 2011 9:17:00 am PDT #16035 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2011 10:30:18 am PDT #16036 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Rayne - Aug 15, 2011 10:49:30 am PDT #16037 of 28293
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I'm about a quarter of the way into Patrick Rothfuss' In the Name of the Wind and I am loving it so much!
Consuela - Aug 15, 2011 10:51:13 am PDT #16038 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2011 10:53:43 am PDT #16039 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Amy - Aug 15, 2011 10:55:46 am PDT #16040 of 28293
Because books.
Gravity's Rainbow sure took a beating, though.
Ginger - Aug 15, 2011 10:58:01 am PDT #16041 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Gravity's Rainbow sure took a beating, though.
All of it deserved.
Consuela - Aug 15, 2011 1:13:26 pm PDT #16042 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Not sure whether this belongs here or in Fanfiction or Natter:
The first screenshots from Pottermore have been posted.
zuisa - Aug 15, 2011 1:40:18 pm PDT #16043 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Every time I get an email that is not from Pottermore I get sad.
bennett - Aug 15, 2011 4:01:02 pm PDT #16044 of 28293
Re: Heyer - my absolute favorite of all is Venetia. The ones listed above are excellent as well.