I teach that book in my expository composition class. It's amazingly well done.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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
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.'
Burrell - Apr 28, 2012 8:00:37 pm PDT #18560 of 28297
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'll third the Stiff rec. It's a great book. I am amazed at you Kat for finding a way to teach it. It freaked out my health science students, which I have to say amused me. I was surprised they were so thrown by it.
Consuela - Apr 28, 2012 8:45:52 pm PDT #18561 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
meara, I ahemed that movie at some point, because I LOVE the books so much, but only watched half of it. I should go back and rewatch.
Really, I love those books, especially the first several. Marsden does action like nobody's business: there's a sequence where the kids do some sabotage on an airfield and they are escaping in a dump truck, and Ellie climbs out of the cab and into the back, while the enemy is chasing them and shooting at them, and it's completely believable and just nail-bitingly suspenseful and awesome. Wish I could write like that.
Also, the emotional tone of the novels is so true: these kids are awesome, but they are so damaged by it, and the books portray it and show them struggling with it. So good.
Amy - Apr 29, 2012 8:49:22 am PDT #18562 of 28297
Because books.
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....
Well, no. But still, very cool!
Pix - Apr 29, 2012 8:26:24 pm PDT #18563 of 28297
The status is NOT quo.
Has anyone over here burbled about Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) and her split-your-sides-laughing memoir Let’s Pretend This Never Happened? [link]
Because seriously, people, I haven’t laughed that hard in...I don’t know how long. And it’s also tender and so heartbreaking in places that you’ll want to cry, but then it becomes incredibly, inappropriately hilarious again and you’re back to nearly peeing yourself. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
DawnK - Apr 29, 2012 9:38:12 pm PDT #18564 of 28297
giraffe mode
Pix, I just finished it this afternoon. I really liked it, and I managed to wake my husband up twice while I was reading it late at night because I was unsuccessfully trying to silent laugh. It was damn funny!
smonster - Apr 30, 2012 3:00:24 am PDT #18565 of 28297
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Pix, I am totally planning on getting that and reading it. I am a huge fan of hers. Glad to hear it stands up to her blog!!
le nubian - Apr 30, 2012 3:15:09 am PDT #18566 of 28297
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
this made me laugh out loud last night.
best animals being dicks.
There's like half on this list that just hit my funnybone.