Oh, that's how Napoleon III came to power, I always wondered.
I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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."
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2012 2:41:53 pm PST #20148 of 28344
brillig
megan walker - Nov 30, 2012 2:51:59 pm PST #20149 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, that's how Napoleon III came to power, I always wondered.
Like his uncle, he came into power legitimately, as the elected president of the Second Republic. But then he got greedy, as Napoleons are wont to do. When he gets his ass kicked in the Franco-Prussian War, the Second Empire falls and the Third Republic begins.
When the Third Republic gets its ass kicked in WWII, the government is replaced by Vichy, and then the Fourth Republic begins. The Fourth Republic is sort of a parliamentary nightmare and so DeGaulle comes back and essentially creates the Fifth (current) Republic which gives more power to the President.
As they say, history has a tendency to repeat itself.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2012 2:59:02 pm PST #20150 of 28344
brillig
I've always been fascinated that for a while Mexico was French.
Hil R. - Nov 30, 2012 3:34:18 pm PST #20151 of 28344
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've always been fascinated that for a while Mexico was French.
I think it was Austrian for a year or two, too.
Atropa - Dec 01, 2012 9:26:32 pm PST #20152 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
HAIL! It Is Time To Celebrate The Feast Of Being Checked Into The Hotel Room!
Clovis and I want to know where we can get our own colony of Aeslin mice. Because if anyone should have a colony of them, it's me and the Devilbunny.
Volans - Dec 02, 2012 4:44:28 am PST #20153 of 28344
move out and draw fire
I'm loading up the Kindle while I still can (Whispernet apparently won't work once I'm not in the US), so I'll go ahead and add Discount Armaggedon even though I hate the cover. Seriously, do book covers suck more now than at any time since the 70s?
Atropa - Dec 02, 2012 8:35:40 am PST #20154 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, the cover is horrible. I felt vaguely embarrassed by it.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2012 9:04:52 am PST #20155 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I don't particularly like the cover, but Seanan does think it's appropriate since Verity does work in a strip club. The cover of the next book is better, though.
JZ - Dec 03, 2012 12:56:11 pm PST #20156 of 28344
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Random bookish(ish) question - does anyone have access to the London Times Literary Supplement? Or even a stack of the last few months' copies sitting in a TBR pile somewhere nearby? My wonderful uni library, which has subscriptions and online access to practically every periodical you can think of, has finally failed me. All I need is one lousy article, but I can't get to it without paying a preposterous subscription fee.
zuisa - Dec 03, 2012 3:39:32 pm PST #20157 of 28344
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I bought a Kindle just before I left for my ship, and it is essentially the greatest thing I ever purchased because I have never read so much in my life, considering how little free time I had. I don't mean to swoop in and completely hijack the conversation, but very few people on the ship really read a lot so I had no on to talk books with. Here's what I read on the ship (give or take a few that clearly weren't memorable if I forgot them):
- The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (awesome)
-Pride & Prejudice (I had somehow never read it?)
- Tess of the d'Urberivilles and Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy (this guy must have lived a sad and miserable life because his books are so depressing I can't even)
- Howard's End by EM Forster
- a book my friend from school wrote which took me like 3 months to get through because it was all battle sequences all the time and I really only trudged through it because I was always a little bit in love with him
- Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth (loved them; can't wait for both book 3 and the movie)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (I cried and cried and it really can't be good to weep on the Kindle)
- all of the The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices books by Cassandra Clare (I liked TID a lot more than TMI)
and now I'm reading Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. Which so far is cool.
Yay books! Looking forward to seeing what you all are reading!