I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.

Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told 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."


Polter-Cow - Mar 05, 2013 12:35:40 pm PST #20516 of 28359
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

She has 13 books?? I thought she just had the four Twilight books, The Host, and that Bree Tanner thing.


EpicTangent - Mar 05, 2013 12:37:43 pm PST #20517 of 28359
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Probably a copy or 2 of the Book of Mormon...

...Or wait, are you talking about books she's written?


Polter-Cow - Mar 05, 2013 1:12:49 pm PST #20518 of 28359
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ooooh, now I understand.


erikaj - Mar 06, 2013 11:26:38 am PST #20519 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!

Anne's House of Dreams is still boring(I bought the whole collection for the kindle recently for a dollar.) I thought I was just being a touchy teen feminist, but she really does spend a lot of this volume being complimented by adorable rustics. It's like Green Gables badfic.(Although being mature and sedate and telling your doctor husband he's awesome are not exactly compelling drama, either.)


Hil R. - Mar 06, 2013 11:42:23 am PST #20520 of 28359
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Anne's House of Dreams was where I stopped reading on my first read through of those books. The subplot with the brain damage was just too much, and not much of anything else happened. It wasn't until several years later that I decided to give it a try again and realized how much the story picked up again in Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside.


Consuela - Mar 06, 2013 11:46:00 am PST #20521 of 28359
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

realized how much the story picked up again in Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside

Yeah, there's a really dreadful "Woe, Gilbert doesn't love me anymore!" moment in Anne of Ingleside, which I really really loathe. It's so... pedestrian. And I will never not be annoyed at the way Anne's writing is set aside as some petty little thing incompatible with the Most Important Task of homemaker & mother.

Which makes me wonder what Montgomery had in mind for Emily, after she marries Teddy and starts a family. Emily is utterly and completely obsessed with writing: will she give it up to be a mother, too?


Hil R. - Mar 06, 2013 12:03:55 pm PST #20522 of 28359
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah, it seems like, for Anne, imagining out the stories is the fun part, and writing them down is just the conventional way of recording them. It seems like she'd be just as happy to be telling her stories to an audience (like her kids) as she would be with publishing them. But with Emily, it's the actual writing, not just making stories, that she loves.


Pix - Mar 06, 2013 4:15:41 pm PST #20523 of 28359
The status is NOT quo.

Rediscovering Anne of Green Gables through my sixth graders' eyes has been such a joy. We are having so much fun with it!


Kat - Mar 07, 2013 10:10:09 pm PST #20524 of 28359
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I just finished Seraphina which I found surprisingly moving. And I hate books with dragons (to the point that it was a limiting factor in Game of Thrones for me), FWIW.


Steph L. - Mar 08, 2013 1:55:39 pm PST #20525 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I was poking around to see if there was a release date for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book, and apparently it is August 29 (I assume that's UK, not America), and it has a title -- Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men.

So, I'm all excited about this, and THEN I see the author has a novella about Tanith Low being released at the end of this month: [link] (Again, pretty sure that's just UK.)

Holy crap, a book about Tanith. (And, one assumes, Billy-Ray Sanguine.) I am SO THRILLED.