Ooh, thanks for the tip, bennett! I already have the non-anniversary edition, so two bucks isn't bad for the re-buy.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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 - Jan 19, 2012 7:23:16 am PST #17514 of 28263
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
bennett - Jan 19, 2012 7:27:19 am PST #17515 of 28263
I didn't know you could ahem e-books - a sign of how out of it I am these days. From the usual suspects or e-book only places?
DebetEsse - Jan 19, 2012 7:30:03 am PST #17516 of 28263
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ok, you all did so well with the "death and grieving" suggestions, any ideas for a non-fiction "book about a person with a disability"?
sumi - Jan 19, 2012 7:37:06 am PST #17517 of 28263
Art Crawl!!!
Anne Rice has a werewolf book coming out next month.
Scrappy - Jan 19, 2012 7:56:44 am PST #17518 of 28263
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The juxtaposition of the two posts above mine made me laugh and laugh.
erikaj - Jan 19, 2012 7:57:33 am PST #17519 of 28263
Always Anti-fascist!
"Moving Violations" by John Hockenberry is good. Exciting, since he went places most paraplegics can't. John Callahan's "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot"
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2012 8:08:41 am PST #17520 of 28263
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The juxtaposition of the two posts above mine made me laugh and laugh.
Me, too. I honestly thought for a minute that sumi's post was a direct response.
Relatedly, I am going to have to buy American Gods for the BatKindle, because my paperback went walkabout many, many months ago.
meara - Jan 19, 2012 8:11:30 am PST #17521 of 28263
I didn't know you could ahem e-books - a sign of how out of it I am these days. From the usual suspects or e-book only places?
I was mostly getting them from friends (and for the most part things that I already had, or that I wouldn't otherwise buy--which is why I was ALSO spending too much at Amazon, and because it was soooo easy!). But I am pretty sure you can get them the usual places...but I have also never ahemed a TV show or movie, and haven't downloaded music illegally since Napster was big (iTunes is easy enough and legal enough and cheap enough that I don't feel any need) so I don't know the exact processes!
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 8:15:35 am PST #17522 of 28263
brillig
I try not to ahem anything from living authors. For somewhat-aheming of old stuff, the Australian version of Gutenberg has different public domain rules than the American version, but they are naturally geared towards the Australian audience.
JZ - Jan 19, 2012 9:18:07 am PST #17523 of 28263
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding erika's vote for Callahan's autobiography. That is some bitterly funny shit.
Waist-High In The World, by Nancy Mairs, is also very good -- she's an extremely eloquent essayist who has lived with rapidly progressive MS that confined her to a wheelchair as a relatively young adult, and severe clinical depression all her life. The jolliest line in Waist-High is about 9000% less fun than the bitterest line in Callahan's book, but it's still very very good. She's just such a gifted, poetic and relentlessly, grindingly honest writer.