I just read "The Selection", which is so very Now. Post-massive-wars dystopia, where our plucky heroine is chosen to be one of the women vying for the prince's hand, a la the Bachelor! It was actually just fine as these books go, I enjoy them....but while it is labelled #1 and I knew there'd be sequels, I didn't expect it to end only halfway through the process, rather abruptly! Wtf?
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
meara - Jun 11, 2012 3:28:07 pm PDT #19150 of 28342
Vonnie K - Jun 11, 2012 4:09:58 pm PDT #19151 of 28342
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Wow, that picture of Anne and Gilbert is giving me ALL THE FEELS, as the kids say these days.
I was a teenager living in eastern Canada during the 80's. I watched and rewatched that miniseries every time it was rerun. Which was often. I cannot imagine how they'd improve upon that.
Consuela - Jun 11, 2012 5:03:54 pm PDT #19152 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I watched and rewatched that miniseries every time it was rerun. Which was often. I cannot imagine how they'd improve upon that.
Me either. The casting for that was just perfect.
Whatever happened to the boy who played Gilbert, anyway? He was a Premier's son, IIRC.
smonster - Jun 11, 2012 5:11:23 pm PDT #19153 of 28342
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Wow, that picture of Anne and Gilbert is giving me ALL THE FEELS, as the kids say these days.
I think I just realized that my predilection for boys with high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes started pretty early (see also: Jared Padalecki).
eta he's still pretty good looking! >[link]
Sophia Brooks - Jun 11, 2012 5:18:52 pm PDT #19154 of 28342
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
His mother's name is Shirley Ann? Weird.
Dana - Jun 11, 2012 5:19:05 pm PDT #19155 of 28342
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
He's in the second season of Slings and Arrows, which led to a lot me going "Gilbert, NO!"
Consuela - Jun 11, 2012 5:30:59 pm PDT #19156 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
He's in the second season of Slings and Arrows, which led to a lot me going "Gilbert, NO!"
WUT.
I watched S&A! I did not see Gilbert Blythe!
::follows link::
OMG he's the guy who made the musical, isn't he? OMG.
Toddson - Jun 12, 2012 4:08:41 am PDT #19157 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Apropos of nothing, I'm seeing news stories about local libraries that are refusing to carry Fifty Shades of Gray.
Vonnie K - Jun 12, 2012 4:31:36 am PDT #19158 of 28342
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I was travelling for work conference last weekend and my roommate, a self-confessed non-reader, mentioned that one of her dear friends (who apparently reads everything) entreated her to please, PLEASE give Fifty Shades of Grey a try. And asked my opinions on the topic. I had to bite my tongue hard not to repeat my friend B's mistake and blurt out "but there is so much better porn out there!" I guess I can't really say that without having read the damn thing.
On a different topic: has this article by Lev Grossman on Time been linked here before? [link] It's a very sensible rebuttal to that New Yorker article that stated how genre fiction is inherently inferior to litfic.
sumi - Jun 14, 2012 7:34:40 am PDT #19159 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
Sylvia Plath's sketches - nice work.