I think you just created your fantasy dinner party.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Polter-Cow - Dec 09, 2011 2:33:06 pm PST #17028 of 28286
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Dec 09, 2011 2:54:56 pm PST #17029 of 28286
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Chesterton for sure, and possibly McCullers, but I'd want to add in Flannery O'Connor and swap out Burnett for E. Nesbit. A dinner party guest list is a delicate thing.
And if the etsy seller wanted to take a cue from my dinner party and start making O'Connor and Nesbit dolls, I would be ALL in favor of it.
Atropa - Dec 09, 2011 3:35:02 pm PST #17030 of 28286
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, have you seen this altered book purse?
Aaaiiieeeee, no I hadn't! Dammit, all these amazing altered book purses, and no spending money. Grr.
(I have a copy of that anthology sitting in the vampire bookcase. It's got a lot of good stories in it.)
Jean A. - Dec 09, 2011 4:20:24 pm PST #17031 of 28286
Yeah, I'll forgo Margaret Atwood and go with Charlotte Bronte, Darcy and Elisabeth, and all four Little Women.
Jean A. - Dec 09, 2011 4:21:39 pm PST #17032 of 28286
Oh, and this summer a friend gave me the Jane Eyre book purse. It is all kinds of awesome. You can imagine the comments I get when I bring it out in public.
sj - Dec 09, 2011 4:22:37 pm PST #17033 of 28286
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't need Margaret Atwood, but I definitely need Frances Hodgson Burnett, GK Chesterton and Carson McCullers, and I wouldn't say no to Charlotte Bronte or Edith Wharton either.
I didn't look to see if there were other dolls, and now I'm not going to look because it could be dangerous.
Aaaiiieeeee, no I hadn't! Dammit, all these amazing altered book purses, and no spending money. Grr.
Sorry.
Amy - Dec 09, 2011 4:32:12 pm PST #17034 of 28286
Because books.
I thought the dolls were sort of weird-looking, sadly. Because a Charlotte Bronte would be awesome. Or an Emily Dickinson.
Yeah, I'll forgo Margaret Atwood and go with Charlotte Bronte, Darcy and Elisabeth, and all four Little Women.
I had all four Little Women Madame Alexander dolls when I was little! I LOVED them.
JZ - Dec 09, 2011 4:41:52 pm PST #17035 of 28286
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I don't know; I sort of totally groove on the weirdness of them. I'd make a little literary weirdness tableau, with images like this, this and this as backdrops.
Amy - Dec 09, 2011 4:43:40 pm PST #17036 of 28286
Because books.
THE JANE EYRE WOODCUT!
Sorry. It makes me a little giddy.
amyth - Dec 09, 2011 4:48:33 pm PST #17037 of 28286
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Would Fay's story be part of this collection?
Fay's not in that book, but she's in this one.
(And smonster, you have the earlier book of Tiny Stories, the white one. The red one is the new one.)