Buffistas.org
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.

'Potential'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

First Previous Next Last Recent
DebetEsse - Oct 22, 2011 6:16:17 am PDT #16738 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.

No, I completely agree.

I'd love to see some kids who did grow up in this world, at some point.

It would also be helpful if the alternative that was presented to Val was something other than "go home and forget all about this". Because that's really something that's going to happen. Right.

We get a really strong sense of Skul's affection for her, which, I think, is the trade-off in the characterization. But she's not the POV character (at least not all the time).

It also robs the story of a strong character arc for Skul, which there's so much potential for, dammit.

hippocampus - Oct 24, 2011 3:51:24 am PDT #16739 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

Did someone post this yet? Sherwood Smith's Book View Cafe article on Fanfiction vs. Metafiction: [link] ?

DavidS - Oct 24, 2011 4:28:11 pm PDT #16740 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

A very interesting conversation about Daphne Du Maurier: Justine Picardie (who wrote a book about Du Maurier) doing a Q&A with Guardian readers.

Strix - Oct 26, 2011 12:06:42 pm PDT #16741 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Does anyone with a Nook have Mockingjay? I think someone lent it to me, and Dan finished the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy last night and wants to read the third.

I would be happy to cross-lend. If not, he can read the first Skulduggery Pleasant until we can get it.

-t - Oct 26, 2011 12:41:03 pm PDT #16742 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I do, Erin, and I am wanting to successfully pull off this Lending maneuver! I believe you are one of my "NOOK Friends TM" already, so that should help.

Strega - Oct 26, 2011 12:44:47 pm PDT #16743 of 28282

I forget if anyone here likes Joe Lansdale, but if so I recommend this short story by Joshua Ellis: [link]

Strix - Oct 26, 2011 1:23:15 pm PDT #16744 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

"NOOK Friends TM"

Heh. Yes, and insent, -t!

hippocampus - Oct 28, 2011 5:53:33 am PDT #16745 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

Hunger Games posters released:

[link]

DavidS - Oct 29, 2011 6:09:01 am PDT #16746 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Mark Reads is now covering The Hobbit.

His reaction to Riddles in the Dark is very entertaining.

He hasn't read a lot of high fantasy so it's also fun seeing him flummoxed by a lot of things that most of us would take for granted (like Tolkien's narratorial style where he will allude to the fact that he's telling a story).

Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2011 1:38:43 pm PDT #16747 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Does anyone have a favorite book for random trivia? My little sister loves posting things like "Did you know the average person spends about 2 weeks waiting at traffic lights?" and "Did you know that if you pet a cat 70 million times, you'd develop enough static electricity to light a 60 watt light bulb for one whole minute?" I found this book and this one and also this one since she loves food.

First Previous Next Last Recent