The secret life of books: [link]
(apologies if this has been posted elsewhere - I'm in love with it & committing linkspam.)
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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."
hippocampus - Jan 11, 2012 4:11:08 am PST #17414 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
Polgara - Jan 11, 2012 10:04:06 am PST #17415 of 28266
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Matilda: Juice. And skin.
What books have you been giving her??
Frankenbuddha - Jan 11, 2012 10:06:02 am PST #17416 of 28266
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What books have you been giving her??
I'm picturing the Necromonicon from the Evil Dead movies.
DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 10:07:24 am PST #17417 of 28266
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What books have you been giving her??
The usual kind!
Juicy and skinful.
Toddson - Jan 11, 2012 10:14:43 am PST #17418 of 28266
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In the paper earlier this week one of the columnists cited Effie in "The Hunger Games" ... and advised parents who didn't get it to ask their teen.
hippocampus - Jan 13, 2012 7:40:00 am PST #17419 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
Dear tor.com and tor forums. Why must you have different passwords and user accounts? This is either medieval or vaudevillian. I can't decide.
This message brought to you by the fact that folks are voting for favorite scifi/fantasy pubs of 2011 - over here: [link]
You don't need to sign in if you feel like voting -
javachik - Jan 13, 2012 8:15:01 am PST #17420 of 28266
Our wings are not tired.
Or as Javachik said while I was talking to her the other day "So, for you reading 'The Help' is practically literary?" It's true.
I did? Wow. Hope it didn't sound as condescending then as it looks in print. Sorry!
meara - Jan 13, 2012 9:01:08 am PST #17421 of 28266
Hahah! No no, not at all--true, and I got what you meant. It was probably also better in context. :)
Gris - Jan 13, 2012 11:01:49 am PST #17422 of 28266
Hey. New board.
That's true for me, too. Though I did read Dubliners in the spring and am 37% of the way through Anna Karenina (I do about 5% at a time, every few books. I like it a lot but oh, it's so long.) so this year is going better than most in terms of works of literary literature.
sumi - Jan 14, 2012 7:33:44 am PST #17423 of 28266
Art Crawl!!!
The Highest Tide - this looks like an interesting/enjoyable book and it's the Kindle Deal of the Day.