OK, I'll try it.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Jesse - Aug 26, 2011 8:00:58 am PDT #16184 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Aug 26, 2011 8:08:32 am PDT #16185 of 28769
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My women's group just watched the movie together, so I was thinking about reading to book so I could talk about it, but I am mostly meh.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2011 8:20:20 am PDT #16186 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am obviously meh, but it is just sitting there waiting for me to take it home for free, so why not?
erikaj - Aug 26, 2011 8:25:48 am PDT #16187 of 28769
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
What the hell? I watch all kinds of movies on cable cause I already paid for them.
Kat - Aug 26, 2011 5:47:01 pm PDT #16188 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Read it for free, Jesse. It was okay...though I was irritated by it at points.
Also, EVERYONE should read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I'd love to teach this book.
Amy - Aug 26, 2011 5:51:17 pm PDT #16189 of 28769
Because books.
Also, EVERYONE should read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I'd love to teach this book.
I got it signed by him (well, a galley) at BEA, and he was so charming, so completely what you'd expect for the author of that book. I've only skimmed so far, because I was too busy to read it at the time, but what I read I loved. My mom has it now. And the cover is spectacular.
Kat - Aug 26, 2011 5:53:10 pm PDT #16190 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It's a wonderful book. I love the narrator. I also love how this is sort of a Great Gatsby, a decade later. Nice to read a Great Depression book that isn't.
I cannot believe he's an investment banker!
chrismg - Aug 27, 2011 9:53:47 am PDT #16191 of 28769
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Anyone want a bunch of coverless Piers Anthony paperbacks? We're clearing out my old room at my folks' house.
Jessica - Aug 31, 2011 7:23:04 am PDT #16192 of 28769
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Sep 01, 2011 8:01:23 am PDT #16193 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Sherwood Smith's Once a Princess for Kindle is free today.