Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.

Willow ,'End of Days'


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."


Sheryl - Oct 20, 2011 1:14:06 pm PDT #16713 of 28282
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Congrats Dana!


Amy - Oct 20, 2011 2:52:42 pm PDT #16714 of 28282
Because books.

I would love to attend this event. I'd love to try the cake, too.


Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:35:29 pm PDT #16715 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Did I mention I'm reading Shine right now and I love it? It's like a lighter version of Winter's Bone with added gay issues. And no chopping off her father's hands to prove he's dead. I also bought Blood Red Road, a Joan Bauer book and the new Rick Riordan.


Amy - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:45 pm PDT #16716 of 28282
Because books.

I ordered Shine, but it won't ship for a few weeks, oddly.

I've heard great things about Blood Red Road, but I'd like to know what you think about it. I don't always do well with dialect-heavy narrative.


Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:41:53 pm PDT #16717 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy, it's like 4th on my list of books to get to. I have a Gary Schmidt book from the library (have you read Wednesday Wars... I LOVED that book) as well as last year's Booker Award winner and two other books from the library that need to be read first.


beth b - Oct 20, 2011 5:47:55 pm PDT #16718 of 28282
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Wednesday Wars was a really good book


Amy - Oct 20, 2011 5:57:10 pm PDT #16719 of 28282
Because books.

Wednesday Wars sounds familiar, but no. I'll look it up.

I'm halfway through The Little Stranger and really loving it. I have roughly a million books to read, including Nova Ren Suma's Imaginary Girls and Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood, oh, and Jane, which is a YA with an orphaned Jane who becomes the nanny for a reclusive rock star. But I really want to get the new Stephen King with the four novellas because it's Halloweentime, and it seems fitting.


Kat - Oct 20, 2011 6:00:06 pm PDT #16720 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have not really been reading YA in the same depth I was reading it 4 years ago. When I went to my local indie, I was shocked at how they have YA and then they have as large a collection of supernatural YA. So interesting.

I'm really looking forward to Joan Bauer.


Amy - Oct 20, 2011 6:12:18 pm PDT #16721 of 28282
Because books.

I'm catching up on YA because I don't read it when I'm writing it. And through Twitter and whatever, I've stumbled across a lot that's really appealing, especially the horror-like stuff, which I love.


Atropa - Oct 20, 2011 10:14:44 pm PDT #16722 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

especially the horror-like stuff, which I love.

Titles! Give me recs! I need more good horror YA.