Amazon has a list of the most popular highlighted passages in Kindle books: [link]
Which is cool, but also kind of weird to me.
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
'Safe'
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."
Consuela - Apr 24, 2012 7:11:30 am PDT #18519 of 28295
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson - Apr 24, 2012 8:10:43 am PDT #18520 of 28295
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 28295
"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 28295
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 28295
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 28295
brillig
Thanks, Polter!
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:13:34 am PDT #18525 of 28295
"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 28295
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 28295
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?
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:21:24 am PDT #18528 of 28295
Because books.
How old are the students? She could either use Rochester persuading Jane to marry him, or from A Little Princess, the scene where Sara convinces Lottie to stop throwing a tantrum.