I liked Paper Towns much better than Looking for Alaska.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'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."
DebetEsse - Oct 23, 2013 1:56:53 pm PDT #21542 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Consuela - Oct 27, 2013 2:45:21 pm PDT #21543 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yoon Ha Lee has been writing short stories to prompts from friends the last week. This one is my favorite so far.
The court of the dogs met in a pack, in a circle in woods at the edge of the world where the night falls off into distances of infinite wild smells: pine, and water ever-running, and that sharp unshadowy tang of borders unbraided. There were huskies pale-eyed, and tall stern poodles, and German shepherds, and other dogs besides, including a beagle with his tricolor coat.
meara - Oct 27, 2013 6:02:56 pm PDT #21544 of 28370
Oh that is neat, Consuela!
I finally read Rose under Fire. So good! So painful, but so good. I wanted more! Dang. She should write faster.
hippocampus - Oct 27, 2013 8:01:09 pm PDT #21545 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, have you read her book of short stories from Prime? So good.
Consuela - Oct 27, 2013 8:12:46 pm PDT #21546 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have it, Sox, but I've not read it yet. I'm bad with short-story collections, frankly. I love novels best, and short story collections sometimes frustrate me because I'm just getting to know the characters and now the story's over and I have to move on.
Toddson - Oct 30, 2013 10:18:57 am PDT #21547 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I believe Mira Grant's "Parasite" is out ... have to get to the bookstore!
erin_obscure - Oct 30, 2013 11:59:59 am PDT #21548 of 28370
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
It is out! Dropped into my nook yesterday. I have so much reading to do and never enough time :) Good problems
EpicTangent - Oct 30, 2013 12:29:28 pm PDT #21549 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
She's at my bookstore tomorrow!
le nubian - Oct 30, 2013 12:44:55 pm PDT #21550 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dammit. I have not finished Allegiant yet.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2013 12:46:23 pm PDT #21551 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dammit. I have not finished Allegiant yet.
Having finished it, I'm on the fence about it, both content-wise and stylistically.