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.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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."
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
§ 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
brillig
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
brillig
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2007 2:50:18 pm PDT #2191 of 28175
brillig
I'm methodical. And a completist. And have no patience. And on dialup
t bows before the diligence and determination that is sarameg
sarameg - Mar 15, 2007 2:55:30 pm PDT #2192 of 28175
I am my own worst enemy. God forbid I ever have to reload my cds into iTunes...
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2007 2:59:26 pm PDT #2193 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I've added five or six books entirely manually. It's odd what's not in Amazon, but I thought everything would have a Library of Congress number. Two things by an aunt, and someother small press stuff. Except for some graphic novels (which will take me over 200) and one Jamaican dictionary, I think I'm done.