Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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."


Consuela - Jan 30, 2012 6:17:55 am PST #17714 of 28706
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I was thinking about signing up and giving them away to people on the bus who didn't have books

I figure anyone on the bus who doesn't have a book, that's because they get carsick reading on the bus or they don't like to read.

There is a guy on my bus I'm watching read through CJ Cherryh. Right now he's just about to finish Cloud's Rider; I'm intrigued to see what he picks up next.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 30, 2012 6:23:39 am PST #17715 of 28706
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I figure anyone on the bus who doesn't have a book, that's because they get carsick reading on the bus or they don't like to read.

In Rochester we have a lot of underserved kids on the bus, because there aren't separate school buses for middle and high school. They just get bus passes for the city buses. So I was thinking more of them than the adults, but again, not sure I want to talk to them, because they also tend to be loud and obnoxious at times.


Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 6:35:11 am PST #17716 of 28706
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm not good at talking to strangers, so I figured I'd print out why they're getting a free book and why I think it's worth reading and stick it in the book.


sumi - Jan 31, 2012 5:06:33 am PST #17717 of 28706
Art Crawl!!!

The Kindle deal of the day is Best American Noir of the Century - edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler.


§ ita § - Jan 31, 2012 5:09:40 am PST #17718 of 28706
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had no idea Robert Silverberg had had a thriving vintage sleaze career (NSFW).


DavidS - Jan 31, 2012 6:17:24 am PST #17719 of 28706
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I had no idea Robert Silverberg had had a thriving vintage sleaze career (NSFW).

I did but Kayo Books focuses on paperback original collectables so they have little zines on the subject. He's not the only science fiction writer that had a side line in porn, either.


P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 6:44:05 am PST #17720 of 28706
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Sumi, THANK YOU! I keep meaning to say thank you for pointing out the Deals of the Day, because I would never remember to even check, and I think at least a third of the paid content on my Fire is stuff you've pointed out.


sumi - Jan 31, 2012 6:59:20 am PST #17721 of 28706
Art Crawl!!!

Well, I get these dangerous email alerts from Amazon. . . $.99 here, $1.99 there . . .


Steph L. - Jan 31, 2012 8:01:21 am PST #17722 of 28706
That which does not kill you should RUN

Sumi, I signed up for those e-mails last night, because I remembered you said you got an e-mail alert from Amazon with the daily deal.


sumi - Jan 31, 2012 11:40:30 am PST #17723 of 28706
Art Crawl!!!

I swear I found out about those emails from somebody here!

In the UK, Harper Collins Voyager is publishing an enhanced e-book of A Game of Thrones.

There is a video showing some of the enhancements at the link.