If Lambert House takes donations, I think they are a really good new home for books.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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."
Cass - Jan 31, 2014 6:03:49 pm PST #22029 of 28354
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
lisah - Feb 01, 2014 8:55:45 am PST #22030 of 28354
Punishingly Intricate
As a kid/teenager I would've KILLED to get a huge number of books like this, but I don't think I know any locally who would want them?
Or you can call a teacher at your local high school and ask if she would take book donations for a classroom library, or drop them by the front office of a school. Or a tribal school.
What Kat said! We've given our friend who's a hs English teacher in Bmore City a bunch of books & graphic novels for her classroom library and the kids LOVE it!
Aims - Feb 02, 2014 6:18:36 pm PST #22031 of 28354
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Well.
That was the hottest hot mess I have ever read in my life.
And I've read Twilight.
Steph L. - Feb 02, 2014 6:43:03 pm PST #22032 of 28354
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That was the hottest hot mess I have ever read in my life.
You finish Allegiant? (Also, did you get my email this morning?)
Aims - Feb 02, 2014 6:44:25 pm PST #22033 of 28354
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yes and yes. And I'm very sad about the latter. A person in our party bowed out today so my friend and I are trying to decide if we're going to make it down or try to sell the tickets. Either way, we now have two tickets available.
Steph L. - Feb 02, 2014 7:19:10 pm PST #22034 of 28354
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Let me know if you come down and have time to stop for coffee or ice cream or whatnot. We have LOTS of whatnot.
And Allegiant, what the hell, right? Such a hot mess.
Aims - Feb 02, 2014 7:19:52 pm PST #22035 of 28354
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm hoping time for dinner. AND ALSO SOME WHATNOT.
As for Allegiant - I just don't even know. I'm so annoyed by it, I feel like I can't even process it.
Strix - Feb 05, 2014 5:04:22 am PST #22036 of 28354
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jilli, have you read "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown"? It's a vampire YA I kept thinking you would really enjoy. I did.
Also, I read Rae Carson's "The Girl of Fire and Thorns" trilogy, which I thought was well-done, with some good twists on your typical high fantasy YA.
Anyone read either of these?
Consuela - Feb 05, 2014 6:01:03 am PST #22037 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society the other day. I feel mildly uncomfortable about how endearing I found it. It's basically a pastoral romance pasted on top of a horrifying story of occupation, and it shouldn't work at all. And yet it does.
Did anyone else read this? What did you think?
Calli - Feb 05, 2014 6:55:17 am PST #22038 of 28354
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I haven't read it yet, Consuela. But it's this month's book for my book group, so I probably will try to do so in the next week or so. I'm glad you liked it, even with problematic elements.