Sad about Elmore Leonard, but he had a pretty good run. RIP.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Aug 22, 2013 4:20:51 am PDT #21300 of 28405
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2013 4:29:54 am PDT #21301 of 28405
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Libba Bray remains amazing. I am schlepping two massive hardcovers back to Philly.
The Diviners? Or something else?
hippocampus - Aug 22, 2013 5:38:32 am PDT #21302 of 28405
not your mom's socks.
She read from Diviners 2.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2013 6:24:34 am PDT #21303 of 28405
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh, excellent!
sumi - Aug 22, 2013 11:03:43 am PDT #21304 of 28405
Art Crawl!!!
Retold fairy tales by Tanith Lee and others.
And Amy Tan's post about what was behind her new novel.
erikaj - Aug 22, 2013 2:14:29 pm PDT #21305 of 28405
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, totally, but he was just supposed to live forever, turning out capers for my amusement.
Typo Boy - Aug 22, 2013 5:06:02 pm PDT #21306 of 28405
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hey I'm sure that, given the choice, he would totally have done that.
My Mom was ordering vitamins from a catalog by phone,and the sales person asked her if she wanted an herb that would stop her aging. Her response: "I'm 91. I'll stop aging soon enough, but I intend to postpone it as long as possible."
flea - Aug 30, 2013 2:10:26 am PDT #21307 of 28405
information libertarian
Seamus Heaney has died, at only 74.
In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald
The socket of each axehead like the squared
Doorway to a megalithic tomb
With its slabbed passage that keeps opening forward
To face another corbelled stone-faced door
That opens on a third. There is no last door,
Just threshold stone, stone jambs, stone crossbeam
Repeating enter, enter, enter, enter.
Lintel and upright fly past in the dark.
After the bowstring sang a swallow’s note,
The arrow whose migration is its mark
Leaves a whispered breath in every socket.
The great test over, while the gut’s still humming,
This time it travels out of all knowing
Perfectly aimed towards the vacant centre.
Seamus Heaney
Frankenbuddha - Aug 30, 2013 3:49:31 am PDT #21308 of 28405
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I wrote one of my papers in college I was really proud of on his poem "Bone Dreams". What an amazing poet. RIP.
Kat - Aug 30, 2013 3:45:40 pm PDT #21309 of 28405
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
"Bone Dreams" ability to leap over time by thinking about language is so beautiful.