The next J.K. Rowling? Bloomsbury is hoping so, anyway.
I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown
Anya ,'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."
Amy - May 06, 2012 1:31:27 pm PDT #18592 of 28297
Because books.
Gris - May 06, 2012 1:47:20 pm PDT #18593 of 28297
Hey. New board.
The book sounds pretty good. I'll probably read it.
Amy - May 06, 2012 1:56:27 pm PDT #18594 of 28297
Because books.
I think so, too. The only issue is that it's not going to cross over to the kids' market. But then, Stieg Larsson did okay!
DavidS - May 07, 2012 4:40:28 am PDT #18595 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Neil Gaiman is interviewed in the NY Times about his reading habits.
Ginger, I think you'll appreciate this:
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If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you want to know? Have you ever written to an author?
As a teenager I wrote to R. A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R. A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
He was a sui generis writer, the oddest and most frustratingly delightful of American tall-tale tellers. Not a lot of people have read him, and even fewer like what he wrote, but those of us who like him like him all the way. We never met.
The last time I wrote to Lafferty, he had Alzheimer’s and was in a home in Oklahoma, shortly before his death, and I do not believe he read or understood the letter, but it made me feel like I was doing something right by writing it and sending it.
Toddson - May 07, 2012 6:06:21 am PDT #18596 of 28297
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jenny Lawson - The Bloggess - got some good news.
smonster - May 07, 2012 6:14:05 am PDT #18597 of 28297
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yay, Bloggess. That book is totes going on my birthday list, if I don't manage to acquire it sooner.
Ginger - May 07, 2012 6:35:16 am PDT #18598 of 28297
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There was a good review from Texas Monthly in the NY Times: [link] It's an excellent book, although I think some of the asides could have been handled better, and it's nice to see Victor as more than a comic foil. Her background does make it understandable that Victor might be concerned that her growing collection of taxidermied animals might lead to things like late-night squirrel puppets.
Ray Lafferty was a funny little man. He used to wander around at sf conventions in the '70s, drinking out of a bottle and making snarky remarks until he passed out.
Scrappy - May 07, 2012 6:37:09 am PDT #18599 of 28297
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I love Lafferty. I reread him on a regular basis.
Steph L. - May 07, 2012 7:05:20 am PDT #18600 of 28297
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Yay, Bloggess. That book is totes going on my birthday list, if I don't manage to acquire it sooner.
I have it on hold at the library, along with the newest (and last) of David Wellington's vampire books.
sj - May 07, 2012 10:58:23 am PDT #18601 of 28297
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oops. I posted this in Beep Me by accident.
Hec, great piece on Angela Carter. When I was packing all of my books they other day with thessaly she ended up borrowing one of my Angela Carters. I have only read Night Circus and The Bloodly Chamber, but I really want to read more of her stuff.