Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health.
I am vindicated! Because wow, I reread a lot.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
Atropa - Feb 17, 2012 10:34:13 am PST #17850 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ginger - Feb 17, 2012 10:35:17 am PST #17851 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not sure if this is literary or natter, but did anyone read Mitchell Graham's [link] fantasy? Apparently every word he says about himself is a lie, including "and" and "the".
He used his fantasy skills to bilk women out of millions [link]
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2012 10:39:26 am PST #17852 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously, someone has to be a raging idiot in this scenario:
Gross, a former Georgia lawyer who was later disbarred, has a prior conviction in Cobb County for insurance fraud for filing an auto accident claim listing himself and his father as victims. But his father wasn’t in the car. In fact, he wasn’t even alive
And since he's still rich and free, I guess it's not him.
Ginger - Feb 17, 2012 10:41:15 am PST #17853 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There appear to be a number of raging idiots or he was supernaturally persuasive.
hippocampus - Feb 17, 2012 10:42:45 am PST #17854 of 28261
not your mom's socks.
Wow.
Toddson - Feb 17, 2012 11:28:26 am PST #17855 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
This gives me hope of someday, somehow, getting some. Assuming the converse is true ....
Strix - Feb 17, 2012 11:35:07 am PST #17856 of 28261
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Apparently rereading books can be good for your mental health.
Jesus, my insomania and depression should be FULLY cured, by that standard. I re-read like a mofo.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2012 12:35:15 pm PST #17857 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
Who said that? And why are the looking at my Nook? Get away.
Ginger - Feb 17, 2012 12:44:23 pm PST #17858 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There have been times when rereading has been all that stood between me and the abyss. I also believe in C.S. Lewis' theory that we power through some books to find out what happened, and on rereading can appreciate the nuances.
Jesse - Feb 17, 2012 1:02:16 pm PST #17859 of 28261
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't read with them.