A bunch of the "Best American" series of books for 2012 are available for $1.99 for the kindle today on Amazon.com. link
You know, my big sister could really beat the crap out of her. I mean, really really.
Dawn ,'Storyteller'
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."
sj - Jan 24, 2013 8:33:23 am PST #20323 of 28348
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
erikaj - Jan 24, 2013 11:35:42 am PST #20324 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!
I bought two. Really didn't need them, but couldn't resist the price.
Amy - Jan 24, 2013 3:40:05 pm PST #20325 of 28348
Because books.
bennett - Jan 24, 2013 5:11:41 pm PST #20326 of 28348
I'm looking for recommendations for a friend. She just read, and loved, Jo Walton's "Tooth and Claw". Previously she's like Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere". Any suggestions for what else for me to send?
Thanks. She's got a very busy month coming up and needs something to look forward to when the month is over.
DebetEsse - Jan 24, 2013 5:18:20 pm PST #20327 of 28348
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Night Circus.
Atropa - Jan 24, 2013 6:51:41 pm PST #20328 of 28348
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Night Circus.
YES, I AGREE WITH THIS RECOMMENDATION.
In my diamond shoes are too tight problems: I have an ARC of Gail Carriager's new book, Espionage and Etiquette. I'm three or four chapters in, and ... it's fun, but it's not grabbing me like the Parasol Protectorate books did.
sumi - Jan 28, 2013 5:01:50 am PST #20329 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!
Flavorwire's top ten fictional libraries in pop culture.
JZ - Jan 28, 2013 5:22:34 am PST #20330 of 28348
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Flavorwire's top ten fictional libraries in pop culture.
I heartily approve, and wish to browse them all.
The only library I can think of they didn't include but really should have is the desert library guarded by a gigantic sentient (and very stern) owl in A:TLA. It's probably not pop enough to be a major pop culture fictional library, but God above it's magnificent.
Gris - Jan 28, 2013 5:29:14 am PST #20331 of 28348
Hey. New board.
The "Gaston has probably never read a book" dig in the last one doesn't really work, since the Beast never read one until the movie either. He didn't know how.
Liese S. - Jan 28, 2013 6:43:07 pm PST #20332 of 28348
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Looking at that library list got me thinking. And you know, we've actually lost data with the move to digital, first with electronic checkout, and now with ebooks. Oh, the info is still there, just no longer visible to us.
I wish I could still see, with a certain amount of wonder like I used to, how long ago the last person checked out this book. And how often it was checked out. I used to love to run my finger down the line of stamped dates on the card, and think about who might have been reading it, and what they thought.
Or the alternative! To discover I was the first person to check out a dusty tome from the deep recesses of an academic library's back shelves, maybe for over a decade! I was the only one privy to its secrets for an age.
Stamps. I miss stamps.