'Heart Of Gold'
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."
I started getting getting choked up when I was reading Augustus and Hazel's perfect dinner in Amsterdam.
It made me remember the first time I read a book that really gutted me and that was when I was reading The World According to Garp and I got to the part where Garp says, "I mith him."
Wait till you get to the end.
Wait till you get to the end.
I was getting choked up in preparation for the end.
Okay, I need some hivemind help. Elie Wiesel (I think!) has a quote about writing poetry that I want to reference. It's something about how poetry comes from suffering and then people tell the poet, oh, suffer again, so we can hear the exquisite sounds of your groans.
Something like that. But much better. Can anyone find it for me? My google-fu is failing.
Check it out: Knut (remember Knut?) has a new book coming out -- it's a serial for the Kindle: [link] (That's a link to his LJ; I don't know if that post is readable to everyone, so here's the Amazon page: [link]
I love that it looks like a mashup of Community and Hogwarts.
Has anyone read "Fated" (an Alex Versus novel)? I'm in the middle of it right now and I think it is scratching a particular itch for me. I'm enjoying it, though I'm a bit lost in the world-building.
Check it out: Knut (remember Knut?) has a new book coming out
Sounds like an interesting premise, and I really enjoyed his Superpowers.
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Are you all able to preorder Knut's book. I am getting not yet available, and I wondered if I was geoblocked.
Deal in today's Publishers Lunch:
Author of the #1 NYT bestselling FALLEN series, Lauren Kate's TEARDROP trilogy, about a 17-year old Louisiana girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.
That's ... a lot of tears, I would think.