I think anyone picking those up and expecting Fifty Shades of Fanfic is in for a big shock.
Probably true, but I realized the others might not address the BDSM part, just the erotica part.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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."
Amy - Apr 24, 2012 7:10:09 am PDT #18518 of 28476
Because books.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2012 7:11:30 am PDT #18519 of 28476
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Amazon has a list of the most popular highlighted passages in Kindle books: [link]
Which is cool, but also kind of weird to me.
Toddson - Apr 24, 2012 8:10:43 am PDT #18520 of 28476
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not sure this qualifies as literary, but I spotted this on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: Three Way by the Sea. Were-dolphins. Gay were-dolphins.
Amy, be glad you didn't have to write the "cover copy" for this; you've been spared something.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2012 8:55:41 am PDT #18521 of 28476
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Just knowing it exists is traumatic enough.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 2:51:48 pm PDT #18522 of 28476
brillig
I'm re-reading Mark Reads LotR, and I can't remember if he did the live blog of Return of the King, and I can't figure out where to look.
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2012 3:04:49 pm PDT #18523 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was on Mark Watches. Spoiler warning: it destroyed him.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 3:29:04 pm PDT #18524 of 28476
brillig
Thanks, Polter!
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:13:34 am PDT #18525 of 28476
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:
she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.
It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 5:18:10 am PDT #18526 of 28476
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several scenes from Anne of Green Gables come to mind -- the one where Anne and Diana swear to be friends, and the one where Jane (I think? Or was it Ruby?) dares Anne to walk along the roof.
Jessica - Apr 25, 2012 5:20:35 am PDT #18527 of 28476
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Sawyer getting out of whitewashing the fence?