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.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
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 - Jan 11, 2012 10:14:43 am PST #17418 of 28266
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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.
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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.
smonster - Jan 14, 2012 7:37:10 am PST #17424 of 28266
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Bought, sumi. Thanks for the link.
Cass - Jan 14, 2012 10:49:15 am PST #17425 of 28266
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The Highest Tide - this looks like an interesting/enjoyable book and it's the Kindle Deal of the Day.
Looks neat. I just grabbed the sample. Man, I love browsing a book before I buy.
Okay, I am intrigued. Buying.
Anne W. - Jan 15, 2012 4:18:47 pm PST #17426 of 28266
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
This video is mesmerizing. I can imagine my books getting up to this while I sleep.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 6:57:36 pm PST #17427 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has anyone heard about this where a novel that started out as Twilight fanfic has had the serial numbers filed off and is going for publication.
Which begs the question, as author Jenn Bennett asked: Can fiction first written as fan fiction—no matter how far from the original source it diverges—ever be ethical?
Seriously? You think The Wide Sargasso sea is unethical? Did you mention that to someone earlier?