Apparently Eleanor and Park, and Fangirl, are both on sale for $1.50 each. I highly recommend, especially at that price!!
I'm a big girl. Just tell me.
Inara ,'Objects In Space'
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."
meara - Oct 31, 2013 10:00:13 am PDT #21557 of 28370
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2013 10:18:48 am PDT #21558 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This post has been brought to you by § ita § toots her friends' horns:
I haven't read My Date From Hell yet (I'm fucking remiss because I haven't read the first book in the trilogy, My Ex From Hell either, but at least I own it), but it's an ebook written by a friend whose writing I've liked a lot in the past. It's YA with an ancient Greek mythology flavour. It's on sale for 99¢, and if you do read it, I'll be curious to hear what you think.
Signed,
Still Waiting For The Nook Book.
Typo Boy - Oct 31, 2013 5:30:45 pm PDT #21559 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.
Shouldn't "My date from hell" precede "My ex from hell" ?
le nubian - Oct 31, 2013 7:18:08 pm PDT #21560 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Having finished it, I'm on the fence about it, both content-wise and stylistically.
Tep,
I am glad you said this. I'm about halfway through, and I'm side-eyeing the book right now.
Sparky1 - Nov 01, 2013 3:41:40 am PDT #21561 of 28370
Librarian Warlord
I finished Allegiant, and am pretty much . . . it was fine, I guess? I feel like Roth didn't do the hard work of addressing some of the questions/consequences she brought up in the first place, and in line with that the stylistic change to this book was a lazy way out.
I'm waiting to hear what my 14 year old niece thought of it.
smonster - Nov 01, 2013 6:30:41 am PDT #21562 of 28370
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
X-posting from Bitches... here's a teaser selfie of my Night Circus costume. I hope to get a better picture tonight.
EpicTangent - Nov 01, 2013 7:32:53 am PDT #21563 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Saw Seanan Maguire (technically Mira Grant) last night at my fave bookstore. She was smart and funny and articulate - pretty awesome. I'm hoping I didn't come off as much of a moron as I felt like (a la Chris Farley, "You remember? That time? That time you wrote that book I liked? Remember? That was AWESOME!") PC, I did mention that I was a friend of yours - but I think I made her very confused when I said I'd get a prize...
Anyway, she was altogether fabulous and I was altogether a doofus.
DavidS - Nov 01, 2013 7:37:40 am PDT #21564 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
here's a teaser selfie of my Night Circus costume.
You look stunning, Smonster.
Polter-Cow - Nov 01, 2013 7:39:07 am PDT #21565 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
She was smart and funny and articulate - pretty awesome.
That's Seanan! I'm always impressed by how articulate she is in her public appearances. Some of it is having answered the same questions a million times ("Why did you use a pseudonym?" oh my God a three-second Google will tell you the answer) but some of it is magic. I still remember her glorious takedown of an Old White Guy who didn't think it was necessary to make an effort to include female authors in anthologies, just go by the quality of the work.
EpicTangent - Nov 01, 2013 7:45:03 am PDT #21566 of 28370
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Haha, she got million-and-one on the pseud question! Although I did find the answer interesting (and had never thought to Google), so you know, there's that...
I still remember her glorious takedown of an Old White Guy who didn't think it was necessary to make an effort to include female authors in anthologies, just go by the quality of the work.
That does sound like something that would be brilliant to see.
Sad I can't see smonster from work computer (FB blocked). Marked for later...