Glory ,'Potential'
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."
I know a few of you in here read Feed (and Deadline) by Mira Grant; she published, for free, an alternate ending to Feed on her Seanan McGuire Facebook page.
It's really interesting!
FYI, here's the review I did of Feed awhile ago (Actually, the first post I ever wrote for my business blog!) [link] and the interview with Mira/Seanan I did last week: [link]
Blackout is out next Tuesday, 5/22!
Jean Craighead George died this week; Julie of the Wolves might be good for 7th grade girls. The NYT obit has some very funny anecdotes about animals in George's suburban house. [link]
Emmett assures me the guy dies of orgasm, and then she candle-eats herself to death.
Sure, but not in a bleak way!
This is an awesome idea.
There's a Little Free Library a couple of blocks away from us; they just put it up a couple of weeks ago. They've been putting out some really good books (the family has a blog, and they have 6 kids and given their house are very well off.) It's pretty awesome.
That is such a sweet idea! For years at my last job, I mostly only read books off our free shelf. It was a great mix, including one coworker's cast-off book club books and another's chick lit.
I discovered that there is one in my town. Now I have to go patronize it!
They ought to throw some P.G. Wodehouse at Emmett's class--funny, can lead to discussions of class consciousness and snobbery, and it's funny.
Agreed on the Wodehouse, but not too much at once. I once read a Bertie Wooster/Jeeves collection in 2 days. Mistake.
One or two stories a day is great. But all the stories have the same plot: Bertie (or a friend) has a mild to moderate problem. Bertie has a solution, which he puts in motion despite Jeeves's warning. Bertie's solution makers matters worse. Jeeves then saves the day.
Wodehouse rings some great changes on the idea, but I started to sense a certain sameness after 4 or 5 stories in a row. It's kind of like eating a pound of chocolates in one sitting.
HA.
The thorn in my side on Goodreads finally hit a wall with her "Dan Simmons is popular and some things that are popular are crappy therefore Dan Simmons is crappy" line of reasoning and went straight for "Hitler used to be popular too!"
I WIN.
(Sorry, I know this is of no import to anyone but me, I just felt the need to backchannel a little. Literary seemed the best place to put it.)