I was REALLLL popular for my dramatic readings of the sex scenes from Valley of Horses when I was about 12.
Irony? I knew ALLLLL about sex from about 8 on, and didn't get kissed till I was 17. And man, was I PISSED about that.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'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."
Strix - Aug 25, 2011 8:49:36 am PDT #16175 of 28367
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2011 8:57:53 am PDT #16176 of 28367
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was all edjamacated and tongue kissed my first boy at 8...and then the second one many years later. I don't know all that book larning was for any good end.
Strix - Aug 25, 2011 9:15:39 am PDT #16177 of 28367
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yes, I went from Never Been Kissed to backseat, er, manual stimulation in about 20 minutes.
I knew what was happening intellectually, but the lizard brain, she is not so smart.
erikaj - Aug 25, 2011 12:18:31 pm PDT #16178 of 28367
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie, I should have known the Hardisons of the e-reader world would have my(messy) back...maybe at Christmas. I still like paper books and will be sad if/when they do not print them anymore, but the e-reader would be nice for things like biographies and books of Matt Taibbi columns...not that Taibbi's work is disposable or anything...just that it's hard to reread election analysis.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2011 4:42:43 am PDT #16179 of 28367
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, do I want to read The Help or not? I put it on hold at the library a long time ago, and it just came up. I feel like I'm already over the whole controversy thing and am back to not caring about it.
ChiKat - Aug 26, 2011 5:28:24 am PDT #16180 of 28367
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I enjoyed The Help quite a lot. I liked the characters and saw way too many of my relatives reflected in them.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2011 6:58:29 am PDT #16181 of 28367
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I also enjoyed The Help.
Gris - Aug 26, 2011 7:21:09 am PDT #16182 of 28367
Hey. New board.
I thought it was very good, for reasons that had nothing to do with controversy. I say read it.
Amy - Aug 26, 2011 7:27:00 am PDT #16183 of 28367
Because books.
My mom loved it and is desperate for me to read it so we can talk about it, although I think she wanted us to go see the movie together, too. Probably too late for that now. I did like the first chapter I read very quickly.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2011 8:00:58 am PDT #16184 of 28367
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I'll try it.