Yay! My Paypal transfer finally finished so I can get my Lifetime Library Thing membership! On to higher catalog numbers!
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 14, 2007 10:31:14 am PDT #2181 of 28175
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ChiKat - Mar 14, 2007 1:15:31 pm PDT #2182 of 28175
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I need some recommendations and figured the Buffista Hive Mind would be a great resource.
Do any of you know of any poems or short stories that are about dealing with sexual orientation/homosexuality that are written by Americans, preferrably well-regarded American authors, and are appropriate for high school sophomores? Appropriate meaning not graphic and fairly accessible for regular level readers.
Any suggestions you have would be most welcome!!
brenda m - Mar 14, 2007 2:54:35 pm PDT #2183 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
A couple of suggestions from Judy Grahn - A History of Lesbianism, or one of the Common Woman poems, Carol, in the park, chewing on straws. I'll see if I can dig them up to post.
A Woman is Talking to Death is a longer piece, and amazing. Stunning. But not in a traditional style, so it might be a stretch. Brilliant look at powerlessness re race and sexuality.
There's a lot more, but much of it probably doesn't fit your appropriate/accessible criteria. (Though a ton of her work that deals with women generally would.)
Emily - Mar 14, 2007 9:24:42 pm PDT #2184 of 28175
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Not literature per se, but have you considered comic strips? I always found Dykes to Watch Out For quite informative, particularly at about the age when I would have been in 11th grade.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2007 10:43:32 am PDT #2185 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why doesn't the LibraryThing Buffista group page update? It's been at 5402 books for a couple days, I swear. And the Buffistas zeitgeist page (cool-assed idea) doesn't show the same recently added books right now as the recently added books page.
And now I must take the laptop into the living room, because cataloging all my graphic novels at once makes me feel one-dimensional. They're all I have left in the bedroom.
Atropa - Mar 15, 2007 1:33:27 pm PDT #2186 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh lord. I finally caved and made a LibraryThing account. I even ordered a CueCat thingamie.
Connie, have no fears about your genre-heavy catalog. Just wait until I get all the vampire books entered in.
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2007 2:29:14 pm PDT #2187 of 28175
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Just wait until I get all the vampire books entered in.
Yay, I'll find new books to read!
sarameg - Mar 15, 2007 2:34:41 pm PDT #2188 of 28175
Dear god, I got an account. Now to see if I buy a cuecat (now way in HELL am I entering it all by hand. Too many books.)
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2007 2:37:48 pm PDT #2189 of 28175
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no way in HELL am I entering it all by hand. Too many books.
I put most of mine in by copying what other people have then checking the author's lists. I'm not worrying too much whether I'm showing the right edition or not (bad former library science student, bad!)
sarameg - Mar 15, 2007 2:47:01 pm PDT #2190 of 28175
I just did a quick count. At least 425 on the shelves. There are a few strays. And that's not counting the romance novels that rotate out and I have a huge box I need to divest. Those I generally don't keep long.
I'm methodical. And a completist. And have no patience. And on dialup. This means...issues.
I have at least one book with no isbn. 1964 book of photographs from Prague. Soviet era.