Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.

'Time Bomb'


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."


Polter-Cow - Nov 13, 2012 5:33:32 am PST #20090 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, both by John Green. Amazing.

I don't know whether you saw that I loved The Fault in Our Stars and liked Looking for Alaska. I just started An Abundance of Katherines, and I love the narrative voice. I have no idea what to expect, but I think I'll like it more than Looking for Alaska.


DavidS - Nov 13, 2012 6:30:52 am PST #20091 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Has anybody read YA author C.J. Omololu?

She's the parent of one of the kids on Emmett's tournament team, and they hosted our season ending party.

Nice quote for a segue: "I almost quit writing my first book when John Green's Looking for Alaska came out because the writing was so good, I figured why bother."


Gris - Nov 14, 2012 7:04:17 am PST #20092 of 28344
Hey. New board.

I haven't read The Fault in our Stars yet - it's not at the Nashville Public Library in eBook form, so it's getting delayed.

Friday is basically awful, but does indeed have some cool ideas in it. I loved the bit where she researches the Shipstone corporation - it really piqued my interest in the insanity that already IS multinational conglomerate corporations. I still enjoy wasting time by reading about all of the brands/companies owned by Proctor and Gamble or Pepsico or whatever.

I also just like the idea of Shipstones. Sure would be a nice way to solve every energy crisis.


Ginger - Nov 14, 2012 9:02:02 am PST #20093 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Robert Heinlein was very ill in the '70s and had a series of TIAs starting in 1978. I charitably believe that that's why late Heinlein sucks and focuses on the least attractive of his vices.

I can never condemn the man overall, because his inventiveness is unparalleled and his early work changed my life. I've reread the juveniles many times, except for Podkayne of Mars, which is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.


sumi - Nov 14, 2012 9:27:41 am PST #20094 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!

Goreyesque Primer of the Song of Ice and Fire deaths - spoilery if you haven't read all the books.


sumi - Nov 15, 2012 10:58:24 am PST #20095 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!

Okay. . . Barbara Van Tuyl of the "Bonnie" series of horse books repinned one of my pins on Pinterest!!!


Volans - Nov 15, 2012 11:47:58 am PST #20096 of 28344
move out and draw fire

I am broken like a broken thing. I just finished Code Name Verity.

I didn't stay up all night to read it, but I did put off any sort of useful work today.


Consuela - Nov 15, 2012 11:50:12 am PST #20097 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I am broken like a broken thing. I just finished Code Name Verity.

t hugs

It's brilliant, isn't it? And heartbreaking. I need to reread it, I think.

I can't wait to see what stories get written for Yuletide.


Volans - Nov 15, 2012 11:54:25 am PST #20098 of 28344
move out and draw fire

Such a lovely and terrible book. I think I might have to give it to a couple people for Xmas.

Of course, I was sitting on the couch staring out the window after having finished it, probably looking shell-shocked with running mascara (and it's also the time of the month where I cry at car commercials), when there was a brief knock at the door and a realtor and prospective tenant let themselves in.

I feigned illness.


Volans - Nov 15, 2012 11:58:14 am PST #20099 of 28344
move out and draw fire

tea:

What a neat bday present, sumi!