I believe that's my hey. Hey!

Xander ,'Storyteller'


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."


Sophia Brooks - May 27, 2012 4:04:59 pm PDT #18999 of 28333
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

For some reason, I feel like "cold water flat" is an American usage, but that other than that I associate t with Europe.


Sue - May 27, 2012 4:30:06 pm PDT #19000 of 28333
hip deep in pie

Although I think people use it more out here than on the East Coast.

Interesting. Flat seems common on the East coast of Canada. In Vancouver, everyone called all apartments "suites."


Polter-Cow - May 28, 2012 10:41:11 am PDT #19001 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Erin, Dohring as Shaun is perfect, I agree. I'm hearing a lot of lines in his voice, and they work so well. I think I pictured Shaun a little bulkier, but otherwise, yeah.

Ginger wasn't lying about the page-turning-osity, either. I feel like I spend every minute not reading it waiting to read it. And I've already read it!


DavidS - May 28, 2012 10:47:05 am PDT #19002 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

P-Cow! How's the cruise?


Strix - May 28, 2012 11:01:01 am PDT #19003 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, it's a total page turner! That's why I waited, with much impatience, to read it till I was home, so I could have absolutely uninterrupted time to suck it down.

And, like Hec, I've been thinking about you on your cruise, and am eagerly awaiting update!


sumi - May 28, 2012 3:09:43 pm PDT #19004 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!

"Suites" - that's very interesting.

I've only heard flat used in the verbal descriptions of buildings - like a 4 flat or a 3 flat. But the apartments themselves aren't called flats - they're called apartments.


DebetEsse - May 28, 2012 4:39:17 pm PDT #19005 of 28333
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I always thought it was a bit odd that "paying all kinds of rent for a flat that would flatten the Taj Mahal" was a lyric in a show that was very much set in New York (Guys and Dolls. And feel free to keep that earworm. I certainly have).


§ ita § - May 28, 2012 7:01:11 pm PDT #19006 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If I've read Mojo Conjure Stories (anthology) and and Midnight Robber, which Nalo Hopkinson should I read next? I haven't read them recently, so if it's a sequel, I'll go back (to paper...ack!) and catch up, but I'd prefer not to.

Also, has anyone here read Marlon James? My sister "forced" one of his books on me (John Crow's Devil--it's pretty good, but I haven't finished it...it's been forever), but she's a major fangirl. Accosted him into conversation for half an hour at a lit festival, and would not let him escape. If she had revealed she'd cut off his foot, at that point in the story, I wouldn't be surprised.


Consuela - May 28, 2012 7:59:05 pm PDT #19007 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I heard an interview with Marlon James a few years ago, about a novel about women slaves on Haiti planning a revolt. I never got around to tracking down the book, but he (and it) sounded fascinating.


Strix - May 28, 2012 8:36:47 pm PDT #19008 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I had not heard of Marlon James before, but I'm going to have to check out "The Book of Night Women;" an interview gave a excerpt and he states Morrison and Atwood as influences -- two of my favorite authors. It looks quite interesting.

I re-read Beloved once a year, every year, for the harsh beauty of it. I sorely wanted to teach it to my seniors, but was told by by my Black superintendent (who told me she has never read "Beloved") that it was "too controversial" for my inner-city, 98% Black students. However, "Native Son" was just fine....I boggled. NS is an important book, but IMO, Beloved is far superior a piece of writing. Inhave to wonder if she had read Native Son, either.

And how can a person say a book is too controversial when one has not READ it? I cannot grok.