The first is that the dates on the chapters matter
Oh dear. I'm planning on doing it via audiobook (if the library has it), so I'll have to pay special attention!
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2012 7:11:43 pm PDT #19051 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 7:24:43 pm PDT #19052 of 28342
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I went back and forth from the text to the table of contents on different devices, and went back and made a note at the start of each chapter what had just happened.
I haven't taken notes on a piece of fiction in donkey's years. And I was never that good at it, but the events that were a year apart totally confused me until one of the characters called out it had been a year since the previous chapter's events.
I would either have been much more confused with a audiobook, or maybe I wouldn't pick up enough to work out it was confusing.
Toddson - Jun 04, 2012 8:03:15 am PDT #19053 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The Washington Post reviewed Jenny Lawson's book - pretty good review.
hippocampus - Jun 04, 2012 10:23:30 am PDT #19054 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
ita !, insent.
flea - Jun 05, 2012 10:53:34 am PDT #19055 of 28342
information libertarian
Maybe this belongs in another thread, but Moxie (Magda Pecsenye) of Ask Moxie (kid advice) has written a book proposal and is interested in recommendations for an agent or publisher. Her request is here: [link] I went to college with her, so if you're uncomfortable saying something publicly let me know and I can hook you up.
Jesse - Jun 05, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #19056 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
erinaceous's sister Kate reps nonfiction, for what that's worth.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2012 4:34:46 am PDT #19057 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just hit my first character death in Game of Thrones.
They're all going to blindside me and make me wonder if that really just happened, aren't they.
Hil R. - Jun 06, 2012 4:38:46 am PDT #19058 of 28342
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
They're all going to blindside me and make me wonder if that really just happened, aren't they.
Yes.
Now I'm trying to remember who the first one was. (I think I remember, but I don't want to ask, since if I'm wrong, and the person I'm thinking of is the second, then I would have spoiled it.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2012 4:42:13 am PDT #19059 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha, yes, I was afraid of that, so before anyone accidentally spoils me, the person I am talking about is Bran.
That is, I am assuming the character is dead unless he was wearing Foreshadowing Armor.
hippocampus - Jun 06, 2012 5:05:04 am PDT #19060 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
aw. RIP, Ray Bradbury.