I'd recommend Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
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."
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
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.
Liese S. - Oct 05, 2011 9:14:28 pm PDT #16519 of 28292
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Kat! I got the book, thank you! And thanks, t, too! It's great timing, because I have the Persuasion reread, and then the SO is gone all next week (boo, but for recording, so I guess it's a good cause) so I can be all Hunger Games trilogy all week.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2011 4:32:21 am PDT #16520 of 28292
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
“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.”
I almost won't to throw that out (up?) at a meeting and see if anyone blinks. Almost.