I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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."


Kat - Oct 05, 2013 7:13:32 pm PDT #21497 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I read Attachments last week. Frothier and sweet. Very much a romance without the angst at all. Lovely characters, but a bit unrealistic. And it felt like she sort of wrote herself into a corner and the ending was a bit klunky.

Actually endings may be an issue for her.


Amy - Oct 05, 2013 7:23:31 pm PDT #21498 of 28370
Because books.

Hmmm. Maybe I'll go with Fangirl instead.

Ben is desperate for me to read Paper Towns next, though. And I want to get everything A.S. King has ever written out of the library now.


meara - Oct 05, 2013 10:28:31 pm PDT #21499 of 28370

ctually endings may be an issue for her.

Yeah, I felt like the ending of Fangirl was a bit abrupt too. I enjoyed it, but not as much as Eleanor and Park (so I'm kinda glad I read it first, so I wasn't having high expectations!)


hippocampus - Oct 06, 2013 3:55:12 am PDT #21500 of 28370
not your mom's socks.

Amy, I think I have Sunshine somewhere.


Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2013 2:39:54 pm PDT #21501 of 28370
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.

My Mom is recovering nicely from her concussion, though not yet completely over it. Last year she was a hit at her local readers theater with her reading of Poe's "The Bells". She says there is no way to top that. It would be a great present for her to prove her wrong. I would be really grateful for suggestions.

[Edited to make sense. Also this is for Halloween]


Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2013 2:40:53 pm PDT #21502 of 28370
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.

Note: does not have to be famous, just good, melodramatic and over the top.


Toddson - Oct 08, 2013 5:05:35 am PDT #21503 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

How about "Lepanto" ... can't remember the author. Great rhythm to the words and good rhymes.

Edit: hah! should have known it was G.K. Chesterton! Text is here.


Ginger - Oct 08, 2013 8:02:06 am PDT #21504 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The first things that come to mind from "melodramatic and over the top" are "The Highwayman" and "Casey at the Bat."


§ ita § - Oct 08, 2013 8:04:03 am PDT #21505 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Typo, the missing"a"in your second sentence gave me severe pause.


Polter-Cow - Oct 08, 2013 8:17:32 am PDT #21506 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh, that makes that sentence make so much more sense.