What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?

Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'


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."


flea - Oct 05, 2011 7:04:44 am PDT #16509 of 28292
information libertarian

Buffista authors MUST try to arrange signing at Joseph-Beth in Cincinnati if possible. It is a) awesome and b) a short walk from my house. (I faced out Cold Kiss in the YA section this morning.)


Amy - Oct 05, 2011 7:07:50 am PDT #16510 of 28292
Because books.

Aw, thank you, flea!

Also, hey! You're in Cincinnati! Yay!


Hil R. - Oct 05, 2011 7:23:55 am PDT #16511 of 28292
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'd recommend Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 05, 2011 7:44:47 am PDT #16512 of 28292
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just read erin's interview with the author of Cold Kiss Are we keeping it a secret>

- and I want to laugh because every time we talk about the book I get the song "Honey" by The Hush Sound stuck in my head and it IS named after the song.


Burrell - Oct 05, 2011 7:53:19 am PDT #16513 of 28292
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Erin, Amy, loved the interview!


Beverly - Oct 05, 2011 8:44:33 am PDT #16514 of 28292
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

That was a kickass interview! I'd buy the book on that rec alone.


Amy - Oct 05, 2011 8:49:11 am PDT #16515 of 28292
Because books.

Thanks, guys! Erin made it easy -- she asks kickass, fun questions.


Strix - Oct 05, 2011 9:21:33 am PDT #16516 of 28292
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Woo! Glad you liked it, guys; Amy's a wily one, but I penned her in with my mad interviewing skillz.

(i don't think we're keeping it a SEKRIT, sophia -- i just prefer to err on the side of semi-caution?)


Ginger - Oct 05, 2011 10:21:05 am PDT #16517 of 28292
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Gotta love a all-out pan, in this case of a "update" to How to Win Friends and Influence People [link]

Carnegie’s great virtue, beyond the simplicity of his core ideas, was his unadorned prose....

That homespun virtue has been obliterated here. This new adaptation seems to have been composed using refrigerator magnets stamped with corporate lingo: “transactional proficiency,” “tangible interface,” “relational longevity,” “continuum of opportunities,” “interpersonal futility,” and “our faith persuasion.” ...

The following sentence is so inept that it may actually be an ancient curse and to read it more than three times aloud is to summon the cannibal undead: “Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”


smonster - Oct 05, 2011 5:53:24 pm PDT #16518 of 28292
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

“Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”

Deer loward, that's the ourobouros of business speak.