Jo Walton catalogs (and, best of all, links) to stories that have pulled titles from Blake's Tyger and Marvell's Mistress. I like this so much, I'm trying to ignore the 1st paragraph typo that I'm sure they'll fix soon. [link]
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
hippocampus - Jun 01, 2012 4:24:59 am PDT #19036 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
smonster - Jun 02, 2012 1:38:09 pm PDT #19037 of 28342
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I've joined goodreads! I don't suppose there's an easy way to find friends without letting it search my email or connecting to fb?
hippocampus - Jun 02, 2012 2:33:41 pm PDT #19038 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
smonster, email me and I'll send my link.
Jessica - Jun 02, 2012 2:42:29 pm PDT #19039 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Friending almost any Buffista will give you a list of the rest of us, I think. (If you click on someone's profile, you'll be able to see their friends in the righthand sidebar.)
hippocampus - Jun 02, 2012 2:45:12 pm PDT #19040 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
:) that works too
smonster - Jun 02, 2012 4:14:28 pm PDT #19041 of 28342
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jessica, I used you as my gateway Buffista. And now I've hit my limit for friend request for the day! Whoops.
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2012 4:28:54 pm PDT #19042 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, so that was you! Your e-mail address amuses me.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 3:54:38 am PDT #19043 of 28342
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I finished Night Circus. The language was beautiful, but I found some of the details opaque. I get what they did in the end, and it had been neatly foreshadowed, but because I felt a bit distanced from the workings of the world I guess I just wasn't feeling the tension.
The back of the book blurb (and therefore I guess it wasn't a spoiler) said that Celia and Marco fall in love, which isn't the biggest surprise, but it doesn't really happen until halfway through a decently long book. Which left me with a feeling of inevitability, as opposed to a subtly shown inexorable step.
I didn't get a proper sense of the characters either. And the way the book jumped around in time didn't help. I found out working out how when Bailey was supposed to join the circus and when Thiessen was killed confusing enough that I had to stop reading and go back and string together the years in each chapter title.
Sadly, I could not visualise the clothing...the dresses specifically. Trying to apply the descriptions to general turn of the century styles left me all the more perplexed for having tried. Like, dude, where are all these ribbons attached, exactly?
I mean, I get the silhouette and basic frills ( [link] ), but with the amount of description allotted so many of the dresses, I felt too unsure about what I should have been seeing.
Atropa - Jun 03, 2012 9:47:51 am PDT #19044 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sadly, I could not visualise the clothing...the dresses specifically.
Heh. Yeah, that was not a problem for me. And I want all of Celia's and Poppet's clothes. ALL OF THEM.
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2012 9:51:24 am PDT #19045 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The back of the book blurb (and therefore I guess it wasn't a spoiler) said that [spoiler I didn't read because I don't read blurbs if I already know I'm reading the book, precisely because of this reason] which isn't the biggest surprise, but it doesn't really happen until halfway through a decently long book.
Ugh, I hate when blurbs do that. I'm still annoyed that the blurb for The Lovely Bones basically gives away the climax of the book.