An extensive list compiled on a community of painters (starts at post #8)
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
DavidS - Oct 10, 2011 7:50:40 pm PDT #16592 of 28288
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - Oct 10, 2011 7:54:05 pm PDT #16593 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For art: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. Which is mostly about the art scene in Paris between 1910 and 1930. Kind of a ridiculous amount of name-dropping in this.
For frontiers: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner. Simply fantastic, and about as important as Turner's essay.
beth b - Oct 10, 2011 8:00:26 pm PDT #16594 of 28288
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I like lust for life.
I read it before I ever saw a Van Gogh -- so I loved his paintings before i saw them ( I read it in high school )
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:02:57 pm PDT #16595 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?
That is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:04:10 pm PDT #16596 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Movie tie-ins are actually great because we have a film critic among us.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:23:41 pm PDT #16597 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Wow, ask and you shall receive!
The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
Hah! I'm reading TFLW this month for our 19th-century England salon ("What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew").
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
We read this for the short-lived Buffista book club, didn't we? I remember thinking I would never have picked it up otherwise, but I really liked it.
Sue - Oct 11, 2011 3:29:20 am PDT #16598 of 28288
hip deep in pie
Are we looking at fiction or non-fiction. For NF my vote would be "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" by Lawrence Weschler.
Kathy A - Oct 11, 2011 4:33:27 am PDT #16599 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Isn't this a book? I think I have it on my history bookshelves.
Ginger - Oct 11, 2011 5:44:25 am PDT #16600 of 28288
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
On the art theme, Song of the Lark. Willa Cather is the answer to many things.
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2011 6:01:36 am PDT #16601 of 28288
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Like insomnia! Ooh, burn.