Ah-ha! Thank you very much.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'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."
Atropa - Dec 02, 2013 12:41:07 pm PST #21669 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Connie Neil - Dec 02, 2013 12:42:59 pm PST #21670 of 28370
brillig
Calibre is wonderful.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2013 12:45:17 pm PST #21671 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
No prob, Jilli. I'm glad I had to look for it, because I had apparently failed to bookmark the original post, and it's so useful!
Dana - Dec 02, 2013 1:06:13 pm PST #21672 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calibre rules all.
Amy - Dec 02, 2013 5:40:29 pm PST #21673 of 28370
Because books.
Did anyone else read The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones? It was new last year, I think.
I read it because it's set in the Edwardian era, and it got great reviews, and it was the most fucked up, delightful, chilling little book I've read in a long time. It's a weird mashup of ghost story and comedy of manners, with added splashes of fairy tale and magic realism. I loved it.
Dana - Dec 02, 2013 5:46:28 pm PST #21674 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I read it. I didn't adore it, but it was fun.
Amy - Dec 02, 2013 5:59:23 pm PST #21675 of 28370
Because books.
I inhaled it. I think she writes beautifully, when she's not trying too hard, but she included some too-pointed metaphors and imagery ("Maybe someone will teach this book one day!"), too. Overall, it was frothier than I expected it to be, I guess? But it was a lot of fun!
Toddson - Dec 04, 2013 11:48:31 am PST #21676 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm reading a book by Tanya Huff, "The Silvered" - kind of a fantasy with werewolves and magic ... and a slight flavor of steampunk. It's an interesting take - she's constructed a society in which werewolves are the elite.
Typo Boy - Dec 04, 2013 3:22:13 pm PST #21677 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.
That does sound interesting. We have seen vampires as the elite in a lot of variations, sometimes the hidden rulers of our society, sometimes rules in various alternative worlds (with many many variations on what a vampire is). But I don't think I've see werewolves as elites before, at least not at the very top of pyramid.
Pix - Dec 04, 2013 6:32:41 pm PST #21678 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
I just read David Eggers’ The Circle and am thoroughly creeped out. I didn’t like it at first and have some issues with it even now that I’m done, but I have to admit I read the damn thing in one (long) sitting.