I have to say--I love online detective work, when it's used to ferret out frauds and not creepy stalkering stuff.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
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."
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 10:14:39 am PDT #20001 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 11:14:37 am PDT #20002 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
As far as I know, no publisher out there takes her seriously anyway.
But why then send her these free copies to review?
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #20003 of 28370
Because books.
She's been doing it forever? There are dozens of teen book bloggers who request ARCs and get them, and most of them aren't really professional. All I know is we never used her reviews for any of the romances of ours she reviewed.
This is one of the reason publishers have gone to NetGalley for review purposes. It's cheaper, and it means fewer physical copies of the books are floating around.
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #20004 of 28370
Because books.
Didn't need to say it twice.
flea - Oct 24, 2012 11:51:19 am PDT #20005 of 28370
information libertarian
Our local independent bookseller has been donating boxes and boxes of ARCs to the kids' school library. We love them! I got 2 grocery bags full of 8-12 year old books this morning.
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2012 2:25:46 pm PDT #20006 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Duma Key is destroying me. Thanks for telling me to stick with it! It really did improve as it went along, and this last third is the King I was expecting and hoping for, but I don't know if it would be this effective if I hadn't spent so much time getting to know and like these characters.
Really sad about Ilsa. Even though I knew it was coming, I thought that maybe somehow there would be a twist and he'd save her. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!" I yelled when it was finally true.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2012 2:38:06 pm PDT #20007 of 28370
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I just read The Buddha in the Attic, which is all kinds of wonderful. [link] It's a poetic little gem of a book about Japanese brides coming to America at the trun of the century. It's told in first person plural ("we"), which seems like it would become gimmicky, but it doesn't. I REALLY loved this book.
Jessica - Oct 24, 2012 2:48:34 pm PDT #20008 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just finished the Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobb) and am now in the middle of rereading Cloud Atlas. I'd meant to reread it before seeing the movie, but since the screening was last night I guess that plan's off.
I have a couple of ARC cookbooks from my MiL, which are great except the page numbers aren't final so there are several recipes with notes like "Serve with spicy tomato jam (page 0000)"
-t - Oct 24, 2012 2:52:27 pm PDT #20009 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've been meaning to read Cloud Atlas. I doubt I'll see the movie anytime soon, but it's still a pretty good excuse...
Strix - Oct 24, 2012 8:45:29 pm PDT #20010 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
P-C, I'm glad you stuck with it! I re-read it again last week and I was wondering if you'd stayed with it.