The Tiptree winner (and honorees) has been named: [link]
Pretty cool! I love it that Janelle Monae got honored.
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
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."
Consuela - Feb 17, 2014 7:14:01 pm PST #22063 of 28350
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
hippocampus - Feb 18, 2014 4:41:33 am PST #22064 of 28350
not your mom's socks.
me too. so very much.
Toddson - Feb 18, 2014 10:41:22 am PST #22065 of 28350
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 28350
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 28350
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 28350
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?
Polter-Cow - Feb 20, 2014 6:32:37 am PST #22069 of 28350
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've started the Gone Girl audiobook. How do you spell Nick's sister's name? Go?
Amy - Feb 20, 2014 6:35:43 am PST #22070 of 28350
Because books.
Yeah. It's short for Margo, if I remember right.
Polter-Cow - Feb 20, 2014 6:42:46 am PST #22071 of 28350
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, that makes sense.
I like the woman reading Amy more than the guy reading Nick. She's got the more fun part so far, though.
le nubian - Feb 20, 2014 11:13:18 am PST #22072 of 28350
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
P-C, I thought you read the book before? Am I wrong.