Holy crap, Code Name Verity
YES.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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."
hippocampus - Oct 18, 2013 9:44:11 am PDT #21521 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
EpicTangent - Oct 18, 2013 9:57:42 am PDT #21522 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Isn't it wonderful? In a highly painful way?
So much this.
lisah - Oct 18, 2013 10:01:14 am PDT #21523 of 28370
Punishingly Intricate
Yes on the wonderful and painful!!!
Jessica - Oct 19, 2013 5:26:46 am PDT #21524 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh, the first two Gentleman Bastard books are only $6 on Kindle! Yay, I can finally catch up with this series.
hippocampus - Oct 21, 2013 3:55:28 am PDT #21525 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Does anyone here do reddit/fantasy? Cooking the Books has a site of the week AMA (they're trying to start a new thing) and I'm fidgety-nerves. On the plus side, the interviews match up with a fair number of r/fantasy popular authors, so hopefully it will go ok.
Polter-Cow - Oct 21, 2013 6:43:56 am PDT #21526 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I hope it goes really well!
hippocampus - Oct 21, 2013 7:19:41 am PDT #21527 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Me too! You are being awesome in there. Thank you.
erin_obscure - Oct 21, 2013 10:28:57 pm PDT #21528 of 28370
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Wow, speaking of agonizingly good, I just finished _Wintergirls_. And I hadn't read the description since putting it on hold at the library months before so I'd totally forgotten the subject matter and how painful it might be even for someone without a first person eating disorder experience. Even worse tho, at the end of the audio book the author read a poem based on _Speak_. I'm still sobbing.
Amy - Oct 22, 2013 1:14:00 pm PDT #21529 of 28370
Because books.
I've had Wintergirls on my shelf for two years now and still need to read it. Maybe I'll bump it up.
I went back to The Light Between Oceans which I'm liking more now, and also started Paper Towns, because it belongs to Ben's friend and she wants it back eventually. I'm a little surprised -- I'm not very far in yet, but Margo is striking me as a manic pixie dream girl with a bad attitude, and I'm not sure I like her.
Polter-Cow - Oct 22, 2013 1:28:54 pm PDT #21530 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Paper Towns is interesting because it sort of embraces the MPDG trope while also commenting on it. Part of the point of the book is that she's not a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, she's an actual person, which Quentin never saw her as until she was gone.