Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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 31, 2013 1:08:01 pm PST #20363 of 28352
Because books.

Wait till you get to the end.


DavidS - Jan 31, 2013 1:57:23 pm PST #20364 of 28352
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wait till you get to the end.

I was getting choked up in preparation for the end.


Liese S. - Feb 02, 2013 6:59:08 am PST #20365 of 28352
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

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.


Steph L. - Feb 04, 2013 8:48:02 am PST #20366 of 28352
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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]


DavidS - Feb 04, 2013 8:58:03 am PST #20367 of 28352
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I love that it looks like a mashup of Community and Hogwarts.


le nubian - Feb 04, 2013 10:21:52 am PST #20368 of 28352
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


EpicTangent - Feb 05, 2013 12:06:58 pm PST #20369 of 28352
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Check it out: Knut (remember Knut?) has a new book coming out

Sounds like an interesting premise, and I really enjoyed his Superpowers.

eta spelling & formatting & stuff


Sue - Feb 05, 2013 4:29:49 pm PST #20370 of 28352
hip deep in pie

Are you all able to preorder Knut's book. I am getting not yet available, and I wondered if I was geoblocked.


Amy - Feb 08, 2013 5:31:33 am PST #20371 of 28352
Because books.

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.


hippocampus - Feb 08, 2013 6:05:22 am PST #20372 of 28352
not your mom's socks.

Goodness me, yes.