Thank you, I just got it! Wow!
Wesley: I stabbed you. I should apologize for that. But I'm honestly not sure how. I think it'll just be awkward. Gunn: Good call. Wesley: Okay.
'Time Bomb'
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."
Amy - Sep 12, 2011 1:05:37 pm PDT #16289 of 28282
Because books.
Pix - Sep 12, 2011 5:07:23 pm PDT #16290 of 28282
The status is NOT quo.
FInished Feed a couple of days ago--I really enjoyed it!
Polter-Cow - Sep 12, 2011 5:11:12 pm PDT #16291 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hurrah! Hope you enjoy Deadline as well!
sumi - Sep 13, 2011 7:22:42 am PDT #16292 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
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The Big Announcement: US readers! The ebook edition of Soulless is $1.99 today only at your favorite ebook store.
sumi - Sep 14, 2011 7:18:43 am PDT #16293 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Reading this blog revew of an Ayn Rand biography I was stunned in a "worlds colliding" sort of way to discover that she was friends with Rose Wilder Lane.
DavidS - Sep 14, 2011 7:25:09 am PDT #16294 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Reading this blog revew of an Ayn Rand biography I was stunned in a "worlds colliding" sort of way to discover that she was friends with Rose Wilder Lane.
Yeah, I love that stuff.
Like, Flannery O'Connor was at Yaddo the same summer as Patricia Highsmith and Chester Himes.
Or that Ursula K. Leguin was a classmate with Philip K. Dick at Berkeley High, and that Billy Martin was on the high school baseball team there at the same time.
Kathy A - Sep 14, 2011 7:25:32 am PDT #16295 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Rose Wilder Lane was one of the preeminent libertarians of the mid-20th century, so that totally makes sense.
That's one of the main tenets of Ghost in the Little House, which posits that Rose was more of a ghost writer than simply an editor of her mother's work. (I have issues with that theory, considering the quality of her mother's earlier published work.)
Anyway, if you read the Little House books, they have a strong streak of "government sucks, pioneers did everything on their own, leave us alone." But if you look at what they actually did in real life, unfiltered from the writer's POV, the government assisted the Ingalls family tremendously, from the Homestead Act giving them every farm they owned, to Mary's college being completely paid for by the gov't (the money they scraped together was for her spending expenses), and the railroad that Pa worked on and that they relied upon for supplies and transportation was government-funded construction.
sumi - Sep 14, 2011 7:28:17 am PDT #16296 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Well, and they lived in the surveyer's cabin at one point too.
Kathy A - Sep 14, 2011 7:30:23 am PDT #16297 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Rose does fascinate me, apart from the libertarian stuff. She was a telegraph girl at age 18 (lived her with Aunt Eliza Jane in Louisiana from age 16-18 to finish high school since her school in MO didn't extend that far), one of the earliest real estate agents (or at least, one of the earliest female agents) in California, divorced her husband in 1916 when that Just Wasn't Done, and ended up reporting from Vietnam when she was in her 80s.
zuisa - Sep 14, 2011 7:31:06 am PDT #16298 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh my goodness I haven't thought about the Little House books in so long. I absolutely adored them as a kid. I left one in my uncle's car once and I never ever got it back; that always made me sad. My set is still incomplete.