All the time. Also e-books, though having the actual package is more bewildering.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
Cordelia ,'Potential'
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."
-t - Sep 27, 2012 7:34:26 pm PDT #19849 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Consuela - Sep 28, 2012 6:14:39 am PDT #19850 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I finished reading Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Gray last night.
Man, is that impressive. It's both grueling and hopeful, which is an odd combination. A young woman in London in 1941 falls in love with an RAF pilot, and also gets recruited to the Special Operations Executive. When he goes missing in France, she uses a courier drop she gets sent on to go looking for him.
The writing is excellent, the characterizations complicated and creative, the evils of fascism both banal and horrifying. Really well done, and quite heartbreaking.
le nubian - Sep 28, 2012 7:34:16 am PDT #19851 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Do you ever preorder books on Amazon, then feel surprised when they show up?
Beau does this all the time and I tease him relentlessly for it. Given what y'all have expressed, maybe I need to be easier on him.
sj - Sep 28, 2012 7:36:23 am PDT #19852 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Do you ever preorder books on Amazon, then feel surprised when they show up?
I pre-order books, and then get surprised when I receive an e-mail receipt/shipping notice. Then I quickly check that there is enough money to pay for the pre-order in my account.
javachik - Sep 28, 2012 9:42:32 am PDT #19853 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.
Oh Consuela, that sounds like everything Atonement wanted to be!
DavidS - Sep 28, 2012 4:45:48 pm PDT #19854 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you like historical non-fiction, or spies, or WWII or have a relative who eats that stuff up with a spoon I browsed through Double Cross by Ben McIntyre at the bookstore and it looks fascinating.
I have known that Germany had been fooled about the landing at Normandy but I hadn't known the story behind it. It was the result of a major (three year) espionage effort by Britain involving an extremely eccentric group of double agents.
Consuela - Sep 28, 2012 5:45:05 pm PDT #19855 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Consuela, that sounds like everything Atonement wanted to be!
You know, I still haven't read Atonement (I know, I know), so I don't know. But it was very good.
Jesse - Sep 29, 2012 10:35:05 am PDT #19856 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is such a weird question, but does anyone have any Lawrence Block Matt Scudder books from the 80s they want to lend or sell me?
hippocampus - Sep 29, 2012 12:03:32 pm PDT #19857 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Have I linked to Food through the Pages before? [link] They are relevant to our interests. Food from Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Vlad Taltos.
Edited to make English not cry.
Polter-Cow - Oct 02, 2012 6:25:58 am PDT #19858 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Feed ebook on sale for $1.99. Get in on the zombie action!