HA - I totally called Maurice Sendak!
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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."
Jessica - Apr 26, 2012 10:41:34 am PDT #18550 of 28297
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
erikaj - Apr 26, 2012 10:45:33 am PDT #18551 of 28297
Always Anti-fascist!
Conversations end when one person calls the other a douchebag, Mr. Franzen. I feel that I should stand up for Mr. Keillor a bit, because I met him once(In a fan way, nsm interpersonally) but he is probably the shyest person I've ever seen on that side of a microphone.
Ginger - Apr 26, 2012 10:56:58 am PDT #18552 of 28297
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Some of those writers are grumpy, and some make other people grumpy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 26, 2012 7:25:11 pm PDT #18553 of 28297
"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
I knew Harlan Ellison would be on the list, he's the patron saint of curmudgeons! That photo of him shaking his fist at the camera cracked me up.
Atropa - Apr 26, 2012 7:42:51 pm PDT #18554 of 28297
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I wonder if Caitlin Kiernan is grumpy that she's not on that list. Yet.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 27, 2012 2:44:03 pm PDT #18555 of 28297
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Amy, I wanted to tell you that I was having a discussion with some young-ish people at work (mid-twenties) about zombies. The young man said that zombies couldn't be sexy, and one of the young women mentioned your book! Although, the zombie isn't so sexy....
Connie Neil - Apr 28, 2012 1:10:11 pm PDT #18556 of 28297
brillig
I have found the most amazing book, Stiff, by Mary Roach. Subtitled "The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers." I'll probably put it next to The Human Skull on my book shelf.
The first chapter is about a surgical recertification seminar. This is some fascinating stuff, and I'm finding myself all excited to find out about anatomical donation in Utah. This is exactly the kind of thing I want to have happen with me after I'm gone, rather than taking up space somewhere. Tidy and useful.
Kat - Apr 28, 2012 2:42:46 pm PDT #18557 of 28297
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I teach that book in my expository composition class. It's amazingly well done.
meara - Apr 28, 2012 4:55:07 pm PDT #18558 of 28297
Btw, not sure how many have read "Tomorrow When The War Began", but I'm watching the movie right now--id forgotten it was coming out but got it at Redbox. Not sure if they're planning sequels or not... (ETA: Hmm, looks like it didn't make much if any money outside Australia, so apparently not. Which is a shame, because I like the sequels, and the original ended in a slightly strange place, since they didn't change some bits)
hippocampus - Apr 28, 2012 5:15:31 pm PDT #18559 of 28297
not your mom's socks.
Oh. I have strong feelings about that movie, having once been stuck on a plane with it. In the vein of 'Don't judge a book by its movie.'