Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Oh my god! That is amazing!
Stoddart tactfully left the two poets alone. ‘If you are willing – will excuse me – I will go off for an hour or so – come back again – leaving you together,’ he said. ‘We would be glad to have you stay,’ Whitman replied. ‘But do not feel to come back in an hour. Don’t come for two or three.’
ah ... but did Whitman come for two or three hours ....
(yes ... I am twelve ... possibly thirteen)
Of course, every word of Walt Whitman I hear in Garrison Keillor's voice. I wonder if Keillor would be amused.
more to the point, I'm not sure Walt Whitman would be!
I haven't yet, but I would like to. Eleanor and Park more than Fangirl, though, or at least first.
I have Eleanor and Park on my table right now. I haven't started it because I'm also reading a Saenz book that I'd love to finish first.
So I bought E&P because it was on a list of recs by an author I like. But I can't remember who wrote the list (not John Green, though, he likes E&P also), nor can I remember where I read the list. It was in the lower right hand corner of the list. Now I wish I could find it because I'd like to see what else was there! Alas, my memory is SHIT.
I just put Eleanor & Park on my library list after reading the The Toast interview with the author.
Tumblr is reading Fangirl as its first official Tumblr Bookclub book. Which I thought would be fun, but I had to unfollow -- I haven't had a chance to pick up the book yet, and it was post after post of gushing praise and fanart and memes, and it was a little overwhelming. I'd still like to read both, though.
I wound up starting Joe Hill's Horns, but I've been so busy I haven't gotten very far. I loved Heart-Shaped Box so much, I think I'm also nervous this one won't measure up.
I read that interview, too, Jesse. It looks pretty awesome.
I'm actually most of the way through fan girl at the moment. Enjoying it but not sure how I will like the ending. I feel like she is...focusing the plot in places other than I would want? Or something. Hard to explain.
I finished Rose Under Fire, and agree with Consuela that it was very good, but sometimes hard going. I had expectations for this book and wasn't disappointed. Elizabeth Wein is at Politics & Prose tomorrow night, and while I don't think I can get there, they do post recordings of the readings, so that's something to listen to someday soon.