e.l. konigsburg has died.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
sumi - Apr 23, 2013 5:36:26 am PDT #20717 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2013 12:02:42 pm PDT #20718 of 28370
brillig
Whee!!! Somebody here at work is doing World Book Night and I just scored a copy of Good Omens! I've been meaning to get a copy of this forever!
Polter-Cow - Apr 23, 2013 12:18:45 pm PDT #20719 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am giving away Good Omens tonight! But World Book Night is supposed to be about targeting non-readers and light readers, not handing out books to your co-workers. I won't tell on them, though.
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2013 1:48:36 pm PDT #20720 of 28370
brillig
Well, it was a department-wide IM, so I don't know how many people who expressed interest are not big readers.
sj - Apr 23, 2013 8:04:26 pm PDT #20721 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I stayed up too late tonight finishing Frost Burned, the latest Mercy Thompson novel. I should have finished it ages ago, but the story stopped really holding my interest shortly after Adam and the rest of the werewolves escaped from their captors. Still it was enjoyable, and I will be impatiently waiting for the next one. I was half expecting Mercy to say she was pregnant at the end of the novel considering the way it started. I'm still not convinced she isn't. The end sort of left it open to interpretation.
Atropa - Apr 23, 2013 8:15:32 pm PDT #20722 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Has anyone here read Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent? One of the GCS readers wrote in to recommend it to me. It sounds interesting (oooh, Victorian undertakers and mourning rituals!), but I also know that I prefer books with some sort of paranormal/magical realism/urban fantasy flavor to them.
erikaj - Apr 24, 2013 5:12:03 am PDT #20723 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm reading a great mystery(I guess) although it's more litfic than a lot of them I've seen lately, called "Reconstructing Amelia". A lawyer thinks her daughter has committed suicide, but she finds out she didn't(and a lot of other things) by going through her posts and texts.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2013 8:09:30 am PDT #20724 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jilli, if you haven't read it already, I do think you would like "A Natural History of Dragons" by Marie Brennan.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2013 8:51:12 am PDT #20725 of 28370
brillig
So I took home my lovely copy of Good Omens and explained the World Book Night thing to Hubby. He was excited about the idea and asked me to sign him up for it. He wants to hand out books at hospitals and long term care centers and such. As someone who's spent a lot of time in hospital beds, he knows books would be welcomed. Is that in the spirit of World Book Night?
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2013 9:27:08 am PDT #20726 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
When you apply to be a Giver, you have to say where you plan on giving the books out, so if they accept his application, then yes!