No, not me. I have it on my shelf but haven't read it yet. Been hitting the library hard this summer.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
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."
smonster - Sep 13, 2013 9:58:12 am PDT #21399 of 28370
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
sj - Sep 13, 2013 10:02:02 am PDT #21400 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Possibly it was me, but I am happy to be confused with smonster anytime.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2013 10:06:50 am PDT #21401 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sj! dammit. you are right. I knew it was sj.
Strix - Sep 13, 2013 10:12:30 am PDT #21402 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I shall!
Consuela - Sep 14, 2013 7:49:00 am PDT #21403 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So last night I read Rose Under Fire, which is Elizabeth Wein's followup to Code Name Verity. And it's really good. And we get to see Maddie again! Spoiler: she married Jamie! So cute.
However the context of the novel is even more grim than CNV: the lead character, Rose Justice, is an American pilot working as an ATA pilot in England just around the time of the Normandy invasion. Through a series of circumstances, she ends up in a German woman's labor camp, Ravensbruck, for the last six months of the war.
It's brilliantly done, but god, it's brutal. And it's basically all true: Wein based the novel on the memoirs of women who survived Ravensbruck to talk (and testify) about it.
I thought it was excellent, but it's pretty hard going at points, even though it's written in the memoir style of CNV, so you get a certain amount of distance from the action because it's being conveyed after the fact by a survivor.
I do recommend it, but not on a day when you're feeling kind of dubious about humanity.
Amy - Sep 16, 2013 4:10:53 am PDT #21404 of 28370
Because books.
I need to get it, Consuela. When I saw the promo copy before it came out, I knew it would be heavier than Code Name. Which is saying a lot.
Gillian Flynn is going to be on Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night. Could be an interesting interview. (Hugh Jackman and Elvis and Costello are also on that night, so it's a big win all around.)
javachik - Sep 16, 2013 4:44:43 am PDT #21405 of 28370
Our wings are not tired.
Wow, that's quite a line up!! Thanks for the heads up.
Amy - Sep 16, 2013 4:47:40 am PDT #21406 of 28370
Because books.
Oops. That's Elvis Costello, not Elvis and Costello.
Need more caffeine.
flea - Sep 16, 2013 4:52:49 am PDT #21407 of 28370
information libertarian
I'm trying to make a "Who's on First/So Lonely" joke here, but failing.
Amy - Sep 16, 2013 4:54:52 am PDT #21408 of 28370
Because books.
Right?