This may not be the right place, but were you aware of a team in the Quidditch World Cup?
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Toddson - Nov 10, 2011 11:09:46 am PST #16821 of 28286
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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.
Ginger - Nov 15, 2011 12:40:19 pm PST #16829 of 28286
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I really like Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. It's a post disaster book and not exactly cheery, but it does a great job of showing a teenage girl's reactions, ranging from resentment to heroism.
Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2011 12:48:52 pm PST #16830 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I originally read that as "from resentment to heroin."