Hmm, would really like to read Rose Under Fire.
Does anyone have a kindle copy that they could lend me?
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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."
sumi - Feb 14, 2014 7:39:26 am PST #22059 of 28352
Art Crawl!!!
Amy - Feb 14, 2014 8:02:28 am PST #22060 of 28352
Because books.
I had to put it down last night, Kate, and go back to The Raven Boys, because I was in tears and I just couldn't hack it. I do love Rose, though.
sumi, I had Code Name Verity on Kindle, but I lent it to my mom and I think you can only lend it once, and I have a hard copy of Rose Under Fire.
Beverly - Feb 16, 2014 10:42:26 pm PST #22061 of 28352
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I thought Consuela, particularly, would enjoy the essay at the bottom of this page.
Consuela - Feb 17, 2014 6:44:58 pm PST #22062 of 28352
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks for the heads-up, Beverly, I'll take a look.
I'm on vacation in Colorado, so mostly online, but I sadly came across some of the discussion about what's going on in SF writerdom right now. What a clusterfuck. Especially when I see writers I really like saying things that make me sad.
Consuela - Feb 17, 2014 7:14:01 pm PST #22063 of 28352
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Tiptree winner (and honorees) has been named: [link]
Pretty cool! I love it that Janelle Monae got honored.
hippocampus - Feb 18, 2014 4:41:33 am PST #22064 of 28352
not your mom's socks.
me too. so very much.
Toddson - Feb 18, 2014 10:41:22 am PST #22065 of 28352
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There was a video of a couple of people at the side of some train tracks and, as a train with an open car goes by, a woman jumps for the car. She misses and falls to the track, but lies someplace safe and gets up all right.
Anyway, all I could think was that she'd read "Divergent".
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2014 7:34:51 pm PST #22066 of 28352
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, man, "Fangirl" is good stuff. I could have used a little more showing, rather than telling, especially about Cath and Wren's backstory, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.
sumi - Feb 19, 2014 7:34:56 am PST #22067 of 28352
Art Crawl!!!
Two vampirey books are free for Amazon kindle today:
Maggie for Hire and Recherche: A tale of memories, murder and vampires.
Calli - Feb 19, 2014 1:25:07 pm PST #22068 of 28352
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
Ok, I've finished the book. I think there were enough horrific elements to make it seem like it wasn't taking the occupation too lightly. And it showed the occupying forces as human--mostly awful, 'cause Nazis, but all too rarely decent. And it showed some complexity in the occupied--some selling out their fellows, some heroic, many just trying to survive the experience. I like how the heroine didn't end up with the stereotypical male lead, but went for the pig farmer who appreciated her writing. I suspect I'll end up like Isola some day--I just hope I can get my hands on a motorcycle. I liked the epistolary narrative style. That's worked for me in other books. It's a good way for an author to show different character voices.
And I want to visit Guernsey now, but I wouldn't have turned down a visit before. Did anyone read about the author?