... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?
G.R.R.M. has been doin' it wrong this whole time....
Willow: Happy hunting. Buffy: Wish me monsters.
'Beneath You'
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."
juliana - Jan 03, 2014 9:30:22 am PST #21799 of 28370
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Calli - Jan 03, 2014 9:31:00 am PST #21800 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
G.R.R. Martin just started chuckling, and he doesn't know why.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2014 9:34:17 am PST #21801 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Who is Russell Banks and why should I care what he thinks?
hippocampus - Jan 03, 2014 9:59:36 am PST #21802 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Here is me. Laughing. Laughing. Oh Russell Banks. You moron.
Ginger - Jan 03, 2014 11:47:29 am PST #21803 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Russell Banks is a Serious Writer of Literary Fiction.
Anne W. - Jan 03, 2014 11:48:29 am PST #21804 of 28370
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I had him as a writing teacher one semester. I rather got the idea he wanted to be Raymond Carver.
erikaj - Jan 03, 2014 12:31:11 pm PST #21805 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
He does. I mean, I even like his work(though I'm not sure what he means in the quote) but he is a total Carver worshipper. And I wish he would write one thing that didn't make me feel like crying in my beer and shit.
Amy - Jan 03, 2014 4:22:43 pm PST #21806 of 28370
Because books.
I finished The Book Thief -- it got tough toward the end because I knew something awful would happen, and I wanted to put it off. Sadly, the movie isn't playing anywhere near here.
And instead of jumping right to Rose Under Fire, I'm going back to The Snow Child.
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2014 4:25:21 pm PST #21807 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm in a constant cycle of re-reading things for comfort. I'm back to A Great and Terrible Beauty, although I do have Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman from the library (not new, but new to me).
meara - Jan 03, 2014 4:29:39 pm PST #21808 of 28370
Just re-read "Earth Girl" and then read-for-first-time it's sequel "Earth Star". Total Mary Sue, but lots of fun anyhow.