I am a Delayed Onset Reader #1 Bookophile with Sleepy Bedtime tendencies.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
Ginger - Aug 31, 2012 6:47:55 am PDT #19618 of 28769
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2012 9:04:10 am PDT #19619 of 28769
brillig
I have Sleepy Bedtime tendencies, which can be bad if I'm reading my Nook or Palm, because I fall asleep and drop them on my nose.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2012 9:44:27 am PDT #19620 of 28769
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I fall asleep and drop them on my nose
You read with the device held in the air the whole time? My arms would die.
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2012 9:59:20 am PDT #19621 of 28769
brillig
well, the arm is braced on a pillow, then I drift off and I lose my grip, then bonk.
Liese S. - Aug 31, 2012 9:59:44 am PDT #19622 of 28769
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I am so lazy I want to figure out a way to make my nook flip the pages automatically at certain intervals. Then I could have it propped outside the covers and keep my arms underneath.
meara - Aug 31, 2012 10:31:13 am PDT #19623 of 28769
Then I could have it propped outside the covers and keep my arms underneath.
I believe this is why the "snuggie" and "slanket" were invented...
Liese S. - Aug 31, 2012 10:58:07 am PDT #19624 of 28769
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Fingers!
bennett - Sep 02, 2012 8:52:19 am PDT #19625 of 28769
"The Senate today have voted to make me a god in Palmyra. They'll put a little statue to me in the temple, and people will bring offerings to me, asking me to bring rain or cure their father's gout. Tell me, Livia: if I'm a god, even in Palmyra, how do I cure gout?!" Augustus, "I Claudius"
Amazon has a bunch (all?) of Andre Norton's Kindle editions for free/cheap. Some are sets of collected works, some are individual titles.
Consuela - Sep 02, 2012 9:55:17 am PDT #19626 of 28769
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
A bunch of those are already in the public domain, so there's no reason to pay for the bundled ones. I only found four of the free ones which aren't also on Project Gutenberg.
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2012 10:11:16 am PDT #19627 of 28769
brillig
I grabbed a bunch off Gutenberg, but I didn't keep them. The early stuff is very pulp, and I find I don't have a taste for the tropes, not even from a Grand Master.