God. I need to finish Reamde.
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
le nubian - Apr 11, 2012 2:59:41 pm PDT #18440 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix - Apr 11, 2012 4:48:40 pm PDT #18441 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Bad me -- I read the last Parasol Protectorate weeks ago!
When others are finished, we can geeble!
And yep, P-C, there's a tie-in. Little, but there. I will try to read the rest of the stories tonight, if I have time.
Tom Scola - Apr 12, 2012 6:37:34 am PDT #18442 of 28293
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Alison Bechdel gets a Guggenheim: [link]
DavidS - Apr 12, 2012 6:45:36 am PDT #18443 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Alison Bechdel gets a Guggenheim: [link]
Excellent! Now if only Lynda Barry would get a MacArthur.
Amy - Apr 12, 2012 6:56:36 am PDT #18444 of 28293
Because books.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2012 9:32:59 am PDT #18445 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I've read the second Montmaray book, FitzOsbornes in Exile, and I've decided that it's also going to appeal to anyone who likes the recent revivial of Upstairs Downstairs or The King's Speech, since it's about the intersection of international politics and the London Society in the run-up to WWII. I enjoyed it a great deal and I can't wait for the 3rd one to come out...
Amy - Apr 12, 2012 9:37:21 am PDT #18446 of 28293
Because books.
My copy of the first book came yesterday, but I'm reading three other things first. It looks great, though.
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2012 11:50:31 am PDT #18447 of 28293
brillig
Just found a fascinating WWI nurse's memoir on Gutenberg Canada, WAAC: The Woman's Story of the War.
It's wonderful the stuff you find on the various country's Gutenberg variations. And the fact that their public domain laws are often different from America's is completely irrelevant. Really.
Atropa - Apr 14, 2012 1:19:23 pm PDT #18448 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Morbid curiosity time for me! Who watched the mini-series of Stephen King's IT? (I didn't, because Tim Curry as Pennywise was way, WAY too effective as nightmare fuel.) How did the mini-series handle the skeevy and kinda problematic scene with the kids after they defeat the monster? The one where Bev has sex with all of the boys to help ... center them? Mystical pre-teen sex magic?)
That scene almost caused me to stop reading the book; I'm really curious if that scene was included in the mini-series, or what they did instead.
le nubian - Apr 14, 2012 1:51:24 pm PDT #18449 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I could be wrong, but I don't think the white-fonted part was in the mini-series. It has been years since I saw it.