I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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."


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.


Ginger - Oct 06, 2011 6:22:17 am PDT #16521 of 28292
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Garth Williams' illustrations for Farmer Boy at auction: [link]


Kathy A - Oct 06, 2011 6:28:55 am PDT #16522 of 28292
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Oh, man, do I want a Garth Williams Little-House-series original! If I ever win the lottery, that's on the top of my list.


Consuela - Oct 06, 2011 7:38:06 am PDT #16523 of 28292
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Fox is adapting The Magicians for television: [link]