Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

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."


Volans - Feb 13, 2007 8:50:30 pm PST #1960 of 28756
move out and draw fire

Wow. Learn something new every day.

Of course now I'm working on a theory that writers from a more repressive time had to work harder than writers who can get anything and everything published.

I need recs for airplane reading. I've got an 11 hour flight tomorrow and I am hopeless at browsing e-book sites. Any thoughts?


DavidS - Feb 13, 2007 8:52:54 pm PST #1961 of 28756
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Any thoughts?

Misfortune by Wesley Stace. Sort of light, but well written and decidedly goth and sexually ambiguous.


Dana - Feb 14, 2007 4:35:13 am PST #1962 of 28756
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

My professor never told me Edith Wharton wrote porn.


Vonnie K - Feb 14, 2007 4:39:04 am PST #1963 of 28756
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Whoa. It's pretty hot as porn goes, I have to admit, but "Mr. Palmato" is her bleedin' FATHER, isn't he? Colour me wigged.


Dana - Feb 14, 2007 4:46:09 am PST #1964 of 28756
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

It's Wharton-cest.


Amy - Feb 14, 2007 4:53:05 am PST #1965 of 28756
Because books.

It's Wharton-cest.

::snerk::

I want to know where brenda's professor found that. Talk about a decent research topic.


DavidS - Feb 14, 2007 5:45:01 am PST #1966 of 28756
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Somebody on my flist shared this, and I think there are people here who would appreciate it.

Scans from St. Nicholas, a 19th century British children's magazine

Just a beautiful set of vintage engravings and drawings.


Volans - Feb 14, 2007 8:55:30 am PST #1967 of 28756
move out and draw fire

oooOOOOoooo!!!

Also, thanks for the rec.


beth b - Feb 16, 2007 3:50:43 pm PST #1968 of 28756
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I'm about halfway through Kiki Strike.

I agree with Steph that it is a very Buffista book, At the moment I am concerned enough about what is happeneing that I needed to pause.


Steph L. - Feb 16, 2007 4:16:08 pm PST #1969 of 28756
That which does not kill you should RUN

At the moment I am concerned enough about what is happeneing that I needed to pause.

What's happening right now? (I couldn't pause -- I read through it in almost one sitting, because I needed to know what happens.)