My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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."


megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:09 am PST #17303 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It's about tequila, right?


sj - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:54 am PST #17304 of 28279
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Middlemarch (George Eliot)

Yay! That list looks excellent. Good luck with it.


Kate P. - Jan 04, 2012 11:40:58 am PST #17305 of 28279
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Good-looking list, megan! I'm reading The Sense of an Ending right now and it's marvelous (and so quick!).


Consuela - Jan 04, 2012 11:41:02 am PST #17306 of 28279
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

It's about tequila, right

hah! It's a modernist fantasy; the Devil is a character, IIRC.


megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:45:45 am PST #17307 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

By the way, I'm looking into starting a discussion group on Goodreads for the people that want to read along for all or part of the challenge. I was going to use Facebook, but then I realized Goodreads makes far more sense since you can have threaded discussions, link to books, polls, etc.

First up is the Woolf, but I'm not getting it from the library until this weekend.


Ginger - Jan 04, 2012 11:50:29 am PST #17308 of 28279
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I should have made an argument for Dorothy Sayers; Lord Peter and Harriet Vane would have been a rest in the midst of these.


megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:53:30 am PST #17309 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Oh, I read 60 books last year. These won't be all I read for sure, but I wanted to be responsible to someone else for some of the more difficult ones. My secret goal is of course to read all 25.

But I know myself and I'll get distracted from the project and read other stuff. And I'll still have my book salon books since these don't necessarily coordinate in any way.


lisah - Jan 04, 2012 11:59:17 am PST #17310 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate

It's about tequila, right?

It's been a while since I've read it but...sure!


Amy - Jan 04, 2012 12:07:11 pm PST #17311 of 28279
Because books.

I'd be interested in a Goodreads group for at least some of them, megan.


megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 12:10:02 pm PST #17312 of 28279
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I'll add you to the list!

It will be a private group as I would have done on Facebook. I think because you can have different threads it will be easier for people who just want to read 1 or 2.