Polter, his book Fool on the Hill is on my top 5 list. It was my favorite book all through college.
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'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."
Pix - Mar 06, 2012 5:13:40 pm PST #18143 of 28282
The status is NOT quo.
Consuela - Mar 06, 2012 5:45:17 pm PST #18144 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It was my favorite book all through college.
I spent my first 3 semesters at Cornell, and would have graduated the year before Ruff--we knew some of the same people. So yeah, when I read Fool, a couple years after college, it was enormously moving. Bit of a college fantasy.
Kat - Mar 06, 2012 6:18:20 pm PST #18145 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Best overheard on NPR today: "Dystopia is the new vampire for sure."
Burrell - Mar 06, 2012 6:54:48 pm PST #18146 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So now dystopia comes in Sparkly along with the more traditional Dark?
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2012 7:44:48 pm PST #18147 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I checked Dog-Eared Books to see what they had, and, as luck would have it, the only Ruff they had was, indeed, Set This House in Order. As if that weren't enough, it appeared to have been originally bought at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle, which is where Matt Ruff lives! Also a bookstore I am fond of because I spent time there with Buffistas and discovered The Name of This Book Is Secret.
The reading was fun. His new book, The Mirage, sounds intriguing.
Atropa - Mar 06, 2012 7:57:49 pm PST #18148 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So now dystopia comes in Sparkly along with the more traditional Dark?
Hee! Burrell, may I please tag this?
Burrell - Mar 06, 2012 8:18:38 pm PST #18149 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Tag away, Jilli
Atropa - Mar 06, 2012 8:22:21 pm PST #18150 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yay, thank you!
hippocampus - Mar 07, 2012 7:53:05 am PST #18151 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
So now dystopia comes in Sparkly along with the more traditional Dark?
love this so much.
smonster - Mar 07, 2012 8:03:52 am PST #18152 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Effie Trinket and the Capitol bring the Sparkly to the dystopic yard.