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I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
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."
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2011 8:45:37 am PST #16819 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Nov 10, 2011 10:58:03 am PST #16820 of 28286
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OOh, that's so good.
Toddson - Nov 10, 2011 11:09:46 am PST #16821 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This may not be the right place, but were you aware of a team in the Quidditch World Cup?
Dana - Nov 12, 2011 12:35:02 pm PST #16822 of 28286
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kat - Nov 14, 2011 6:43:01 pm PST #16823 of 28286
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Quick question....
My school is starting a Before School Book Club and we are hoping to buy books for our kids to keep. We need five titles. We're starting with Cold Kiss and then we'll read Shine. But I need three more titles.
Ideas?
hippocampus - Nov 14, 2011 9:15:15 pm PST #16824 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Jo Walton's Among Others (which is a lot about reading groups and books - sci fi slant)
Amy - Nov 15, 2011 2:51:31 am PST #16825 of 28286
Because books.
What about How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, or Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why? Maybe Stardust by Neil Gaiman? Oh, or Jellicoe Road by [author whose name I can't remember] or Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma (which you should read anyway).
hippocampus - Nov 15, 2011 5:22:45 am PST #16826 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Not for a school bookshelf, because there are some very fine sexytimes scenes (at least I thought so), but I just finished the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy - that's some amazingly fun reading, and fine writing. Especially if you like meddlesome gods.
Consuela - Nov 15, 2011 6:27:46 am PST #16827 of 28286
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My school is starting a Before School Book Club and we are hoping to buy books for our kids to keep. We need five titles. We're starting with Cold Kiss and then we'll read Shine. But I need three more titles.
Kristin Cashore's Graceling? Also, the more recent Tamora Pierce novels? The Hunger Games? What are your constraints, Kat?
Strix - Nov 15, 2011 8:18:51 am PST #16828 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Those are great recs! Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson.