I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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."


Jesse - Jan 31, 2014 8:43:08 am PST #22017 of 28358
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Or a senior center? Or a prison? Anywhere people spend a lot of unscheduled time, really....


Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 8:43:35 am PST #22018 of 28358
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.

Better than Goodwill be a Friends of the Library book sale. Much better chance of them finding a good home.


Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 8:44:39 am PST #22019 of 28358
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.

"Re: Jesse's suggestion. Google "books for prisoners"


-t - Jan 31, 2014 8:46:06 am PST #22020 of 28358
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Half-price books?


meara - Jan 31, 2014 9:00:35 am PST #22021 of 28358

Hmm, looks like there is a "Books to Prisoners" group in Seattle, but they want you to donate $35 per box of books because they ship them to prisoners and say that costs $70 a box. Um, ok. Found an article on another local group, but not sure if they take books, so I emailed them. I figure for me it would be seriously cruel and unusual punishment to lock me up without books, so...yeah.


Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:09:03 am PST #22022 of 28358
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.

Yeah, that $35 fee is kinda wtf.

The only problem with half-price books is the likelihood of leaving with as many books as you arrive with.


Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:11:23 am PST #22023 of 28358
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.

Books to Prisoners Olympia does not charge to accept donations BTW, so the Seattle chapter is being "special".


Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2014 9:31:58 am PST #22024 of 28358
brillig

hospitalsould be mt thoughy.


Atropa - Jan 31, 2014 11:17:02 am PST #22025 of 28358
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Check and see if any of the youth shelters take book donations. Oooh, see if Lambert House does! (They're a queer and trans youth shelter/community center.)


Consuela - Jan 31, 2014 11:26:41 am PST #22026 of 28358
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

meara, I generally give my books to the library. Whatever they don't want for the shelves gets sold to raise more money for the library system. Works out pretty well.