Yay, Amy!
Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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."
sj - Sep 05, 2011 10:33:28 am PDT #16239 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
smonster - Sep 05, 2011 10:45:06 am PDT #16240 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yay Amy! Very cool.
Couples - I love many of the ones you listed, Amy, and will see if any others come to mind.
Jilli, OMG, would love to read an Addams family book by you. I have an old hardback collection of the comics that was my grandmother's.
Connie Neil - Sep 05, 2011 11:01:40 am PDT #16241 of 28282
brillig
Richard/Alec (Swordspoint)
Oh, yes, yes, yes!
Have you read Privilege of the Sword?
sumi - Sep 05, 2011 11:58:46 am PDT #16242 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Elizabeth/Darcy?
Laura/Almanzo
Atropa - Sep 05, 2011 12:03:09 pm PDT #16243 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have an old hardback collection of the comics that was my grandmother's.
Oooh, you lucky thing. I have some vintage paperbacks.
Have you read Privilege of the Sword?
Yes! And I loved it. I loaned it to the StuntHusband, who made clappyhands of glee over it.
Kate P. - Sep 05, 2011 12:18:37 pm PDT #16244 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Amy, how cool!
Man, I loved Privilege of the Sword. So freaking good.
Kathy A - Sep 06, 2011 6:08:13 am PDT #16245 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I have an old hardback collection of the comics that was my grandmother's.
I've got one that I picked up at a used bookstore for a dollar, I think. The dustjacket is falling apart, but the rest of it is in good shape!
Consuela - Sep 06, 2011 6:12:18 am PDT #16246 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So Amazon had a Kindle deal for the Parasol Protectorate, and I got the first three books for $10. Finished Soulless last night.
It was fun. I'm not overwhelmed by the writing, but it's entertaining. However I was thrown right out of the story by the fact that Queen Victoria was introduced as "Her royal highness" rather than "Her Majesty". I don't pretend to be a specialist in noble etiquette, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong...
I also rather wished that the romance had been more drawn out: Alexia and Conall went from sparring to necking rather quickly, and I would have enjoyed seeing the beginning of the relationship, too. I felt like I missed out on something.
But it was fun enough that I'll be reading the rest.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2011 6:21:20 am PDT #16247 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sort of along those nitpicky lines, I am reading (and enjoying) The Help, except when they described a photograph caption in the New York Times in 1962 as reading (say) "The home of John and Jane Smith." I am 90% sure that would have said "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith." I mean, right? Several years later, my mother still had to get Mrs. [his name] on her Filene's charge card, and my father didn't even have a job!
Amy - Sep 06, 2011 6:23:52 am PDT #16248 of 28282
Because books.
I think the Times still refers to people in captions as well as text as Mr. Name, rather than just Name, yeah.