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.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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."
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.
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!
meara - Dec 03, 2012 3:54:34 pm PST #20158 of 28344
Yay zuisa! ebooks are the BEST for travel. I am so happy to be living in this future. As a kid I swear I dreamed about this kind of thing...
Steph L. - Dec 03, 2012 4:16:29 pm PST #20159 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
- Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth (loved them; can't wait for both book 3 and the movie)
There's going to be a MOVIE?
Which is to say, yeah, I read them, too, and really enjoyed them.
zuisa - Dec 03, 2012 4:22:43 pm PST #20160 of 28344
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
There's going to be a MOVIE?
Yes! It's not set to come out until 2014, but still. The actress cast to play Tris is from Secret Life of the American Teenager, which worries me, but still.
I plowed through the first book in a day; I was completely sucked in.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2012 5:03:21 pm PST #20161 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The actress cast to play Tris is from Secret Life of the American Teenager, which worries me, but still.
It shouldn't. She was great in The Descendants and won a ton of awards.
zuisa - Dec 03, 2012 5:08:42 pm PST #20162 of 28344
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh, good! I wasn't aware she'd been in anything else. ABC Family is just on in my house enough that Secret Life is all I recognized her name from.
Dana - Dec 03, 2012 5:11:15 pm PST #20163 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth
I take it the last one will be called Resurgent?
zuisa - Dec 03, 2012 5:20:11 pm PST #20164 of 28344
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I don't think it has been named yet!
EpicTangent - Dec 04, 2012 10:17:32 am PST #20165 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
- The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (awesome)
I'm about halfway through this myself, based on, if I remember correctly, Pix's recommendation. I'm definitely enjoying it. Good to see another rec!