Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.

'Bushwhacked'


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."


DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 9:29:45 am PDT #21269 of 28611
Woe to the fucking wicked.

t looks at Amazon

Interesting.


Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 9:55:04 am PDT #21270 of 28611
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Her Crosswicks journals are beautifully written, and The Summer of the Great Grandmother is a thoughtful look at aging and dealing with an independent relative who is becoming dependent. Her novel A Severed Wasp also deals with aging.

Another possibility would be M.F.K. Fisher's collection Sister Age. >[link]


Sophia Brooks - Aug 19, 2013 10:41:08 am PDT #21271 of 28611
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.


meara - Aug 19, 2013 10:47:11 am PDT #21272 of 28611

One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.


erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:09:25 am PDT #21273 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.


Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2013 5:18:11 am PDT #21274 of 28611
They pay me in WOIMS

RIP Elmore Leonard.


erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:28:22 am PDT #21275 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)


DavidS - Aug 20, 2013 5:31:35 am PDT #21276 of 28611
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For as much effect as Leonard had on crime fiction and westerns and movies, his effect on science fiction is also notable. Wm. Gibson didn't really know how to plot out a full novel, so he just copied the structure of an Elmore Leonard book.


Jesse - Aug 20, 2013 5:39:17 am PDT #21277 of 28611
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

RIP


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 20, 2013 6:03:58 am PDT #21278 of 28611
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.

Thanks for giving us Jackie Brown, Mr. Leonard.