I'm reading Libba Bray's new novel, The Diviners. It's creepy and apt for this time of year.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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."
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2012 5:32:39 pm PDT #20019 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2012 7:26:38 pm PDT #20020 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished Duma Key today! The exciting last third totally made up for the often-boring first two-thirds.
Volans - Oct 30, 2012 4:18:39 am PDT #20021 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Back when I was teaching high school English in Malaysia, I had the students each select a poem to do a bunch of work with, including read aloud. A Japanese boy with a very strong Japanese accent chose "The Bells."
And now I can't unhear his version.
Toddson - Oct 30, 2012 4:42:54 am PDT #20022 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Every so often, when it seems that everyone's sent their bill at once, I think I hear "the tintinnabulation of the bills". sigh ....
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 5:10:10 am PDT #20023 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Didn't you love Elizabeth, P-C? And Wireman...I'd like to sit down and have some margaritas with him.
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 5:31:21 am PDT #20024 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Elizabeth was great! And I really liked Wireman a lot. His constant use of Spanish was simultaneously annoying and endearing (especially given his reason for knowing it). I was so sad that he had to fucking die so soon after everything settled down. I know Perse didn't have anything to do with it (OR DID SHE), but it sucks.
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 5:39:02 am PDT #20025 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ITA on your whitefont. But King'll do that; have you read "Bag of Bones?" If not, I really recommend!
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 5:58:11 am PDT #20026 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have not! I haven't read a lot of modern King. Or old-school King. There is a lot of King, after all.
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 6:20:13 am PDT #20027 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Get on that horse, fella! Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap. Or try Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons if, like me, you need to read short stories before red, or else you're up the whole night or most of it, finishing the damned novel!
Polter-Cow - Oct 30, 2012 6:22:40 am PDT #20028 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I know I read one of the short story collections a long time ago, but I can't remember which. I think it was whichever one had "Sometimes They Come Back" and "The Lawnmower Man" (which, what the hell, was nothing at all like the movie). I will probably check out the Nightmares and Dreamscapes audiobook because it has a huge cast of readers, many of whom I recognize.