Justine Larbalestier on snotty readers who dismiss whole genres.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Amy - Jan 17, 2013 6:00:45 pm PST #20266 of 28348
Because books.
sumi - Jan 18, 2013 4:35:26 am PST #20267 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!
Kindle Science Fiction/Fantasy Deal of the Day: Barbara Hambly's Blood Maidens.
Steph L. - Jan 18, 2013 1:42:03 pm PST #20268 of 28348
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I did buy Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (for the Kindle, which is hilariously appropriate), and it's all kinds of nerdy fun. I'm about halfway through it (I bought it a week ago, not today). I'm likely to finish it this weekend.
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2013 9:59:39 pm PST #20269 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
For fans of SF Squeecast, a certain blog column about food and genre fiction is one of those mentioned this month. Around the 20 minute mark. It's a great show, and a great conversation.
It says the bandwidth is exceeded, but does it happen to be this one?? Because she linked to this post on one of Mark's Feed posts, and I really liked it.
And then she started working at my company.
askye - Jan 19, 2013 5:14:22 pm PST #20270 of 28348
Thrive to spite them
I'm putting all my books in GoodReads - especially the ones I got for free and still haven't gotten around to reading. Although I think I've gone a wee bit overboard in making shelves. A shelf for every series! And books in multiple shelves!
But I've also found I have a couple of duplicate books and I have a growing pile of books to donate to the library. I have a few books that ended up with bad reviews on GoodReads so I'm not going to keep them and try them out.
Gris - Jan 21, 2013 3:04:28 pm PST #20271 of 28348
Hey. New board.
I am wondering why The Sun Also Rises catapulted Hemingway to the position of "the preeminent writer of his time" according to the biography at the end when absolutely nothing of interest happens for the whole stupid book.
I am sure that some of Hemingway's later books are better, but after my dislike of The Old Man and the Sea and my utter detestation of having wasted time with this one, I'm rather reluctant to try any more.
Amy - Jan 21, 2013 3:06:29 pm PST #20272 of 28348
Because books.
The Old Man and the Sea was my introduction to Hemingway, and an exercise in staying awake. It's really not the greatest book of his to read first.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2013 3:13:47 pm PST #20273 of 28348
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I also read The old Man... first. I hated it. I think I liked The Sun Also Rises, possibly because there was a woman in it, and also less fishing.
Scrappy - Jan 21, 2013 3:19:23 pm PST #20274 of 28348
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
and also less fishing.
Yeah, well, there couldn't be MORE.
sj - Jan 21, 2013 3:22:48 pm PST #20275 of 28348
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am wondering why The Sun Also Rises catapulted Hemingway to the position of "the preeminent writer of his time" according to the biography at the end when absolutely nothing of interest happens for the whole stupid book.
I highly recommend reading The Paris Wife. It is a fictional account of that time period when Hemingway was writing The Sun Also Rises told from his first wife's point of view. Yes, it is fiction, but it is said to be very well researched.