Seriously. That's definitely a rule somewhere we can look up.
I just try to stay inside alone all day.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Liese S. - Apr 01, 2012 8:31:04 am PDT #18325 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
erikaj - Apr 01, 2012 12:10:36 pm PDT #18326 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
Cops probably prank each other, but they shouldn't prank us.
Toddson - Apr 02, 2012 10:05:09 am PDT #18327 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
just fyi - the Washington Post's Sunday travel section had a long article by someone who said he was checking out Denver to see if it was the Capital in The Hunger Games. Interesting premise, with the potential for some interesting comparisons. Unfortunately, the writer - in my opinion - got cute about it. Did things like ordering dinner and asking if his lamb stew could be fixed up with plums and wild rice, like Katniss's favorite. Comparing a bear statue to the "muttations".
Disappointing.
Ginger - Apr 03, 2012 12:42:24 pm PDT #18328 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is there no end to the urban fantasy covers with dominated by the sexy heroine and her bare midriff? [link]
Connie Neil - Apr 03, 2012 12:48:41 pm PDT #18329 of 28289
brillig
Hey, she at least has most of her head. I'm tired of romance novels with decapitated heroines on the cover.
DavidS - Apr 03, 2012 12:49:29 pm PDT #18330 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is there no end to the urban fantasy covers with dominated by the sexy heroine and her bare midriff?
At least this one has a visible head and doesn't have tribal tattoos. Got tired of those looking over one shoulder/weapon in hand/tats covers.
DavidS - Apr 03, 2012 12:49:51 pm PDT #18331 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh.
Headedness xpost.
Connie Neil - Apr 03, 2012 12:50:54 pm PDT #18332 of 28289
brillig
I guess all book designers are of the "women won't buy books unless they can imagine themselves as the heroine" school.
edit: or maybe if they don't show her face they don't have to pay the model.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2012 12:57:48 pm PDT #18333 of 28289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm assuming that she's a deep undercover FBI agent, with that getup.
meara - Apr 03, 2012 12:58:12 pm PDT #18334 of 28289
Plus, although it may be coming back, midriff tops are really out of style (compared to, say, the mid-90s when you could barely buy a shirt that covered your bellybutton). And most of these are supposed to be set around now-ish (either an alternate one with monsters, or a "real" one where no one but the heroine and her people KNOW about the monsters...). Hmph.