'Objects In Space'
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."
flea, are you still book-shopping? A couple other picture book favorites:
The Library, Sarah Stewart
Rachel Fister's Blister, Amy MacDonald
If I Were a Lion, Sarah Weeks
Diane Goode also has a few really lovely picture books with the most charming illustrations. Where's Our Mama? is gorgeous and set in 1920s Paris.
Also, if you can find anything by Alison Lester, get it. She's Australian, and the books were some of Sara's every-freaking-night favorites.
Hey - I posted this on FB, but it's worthy of posting here, and a fun mental exercise. I've been raving about the Harry Potter fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality recently. It's long, and not yet done, and awesome, like Douglas Hofstadter wrapped in pop culture references. I mean, there's a lagniappe that mashes up Anita Blake and Paul Erdos. Could it BE more Buffista? It could not.
Anyway, whether you've read that or not, a couple fans of it decided to put together the House reading lists for rationalist Hogwarts students. [link] My actual bookshelves are a mix of the Ravenclaw and Slytherin lists, which is probably about right.
I (finally) finished reading Les Miserables. Long, but good. And the melodrama in the musical doesn't even remotely approach the melodrama in the book.
Chinua Achebe passed away link.
Not sure where this goes, but the Lizzie Bennet Diaries vlog-to-dvd project just got way more than their Kickstarter goal: [link]
Awesome! I got way behind, so now I can watch it on my own schedule.
I am debating whether I have $55 to spend on that.
I haven't seen any of it at all, and I am definitely tempted to buy the DVD to make watching it easier, but $55 is a lot. But maaaaaaaybe this is what I can use my Oscar pool winnings for.
I had no idea there was a new Kiki Strike book out! And even better, my library has it in! (But I'm in the middle of Etiquette and Espionage, and the Tanith Low book should ship soon, and I think another installment of Knut's book is out this week, yes? It's an embarrassment of book riches.)
Amazon recommended Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslight Fiction to me - and I thought (if they hadn't recommended to you) then a few here might be interested.
GRRM talks about Maurice Druon's Accursed Kings in the Huffington Post.