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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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lisah - Mar 09, 2014 4:58:16 pm PDT #22156 of 28344

Punishingly Intricate

The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.

I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?

Has anyone read Mikal Gilmore's brilliant Shot through the Heart?

Yes! I love that book! Another great one about Mormons is Jon Krakaur's Under the Banner of Heaven. We read it for book club in March of last year, our crime-themed year, and it came up in basically all of our discussions for the rest of the year.

Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2014 5:00:19 pm PDT #22157 of 28344

brillig

Oh, god, the Laffertys.

Atropa - Mar 09, 2014 5:02:55 pm PDT #22158 of 28344

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

twirls through the thread in Victorian Goth formalwear

Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned. PLEASE let it be better than Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.

lisah - Mar 09, 2014 5:03:24 pm PDT #22159 of 28344

Punishingly Intricate

Yeah, it is messed up. But, fascinating.

DavidS - Mar 09, 2014 5:07:19 pm PDT #22160 of 28344

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I saw an excellent DuBois documentary (I think this one : [link]) that was eye opening. I feel pretty firmly that I am a WEB DuBois kinda person

Historical sidenote: I had W.E.B. Dubois' old suitcase in my closet for a while.

Steph L. - Mar 09, 2014 5:13:53 pm PDT #22161 of 28344

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned.

WHAT.

I am...cautiously intrigued.

sj - Mar 09, 2014 5:16:44 pm PDT #22162 of 28344

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.

I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?

No, he didn't.

DavidS - Mar 09, 2014 5:19:40 pm PDT #22163 of 28344

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I am...cautiously intrigued.

EM's family were communists and were heavily involved with the Civil Rights movement from its foundation. Her dad was roommates with Paul Robeson at one time (in the forties?), and Robeson was the best man at his first wedding (before EM's mom).

Her father was the only white staff member (art director) on Freedomways, a lefty journal of black writing for all of the sixties and into the early seventies. Her parents not only attended the March on Washington, but EM was picked up and kissed as a three year old by MLK himself.

So, anyway, they got a hand-me-down suitcase from W.E.B. Dubois.

Cass - Mar 09, 2014 5:27:00 pm PDT #22164 of 28344

Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I am...cautiously intrigued.

I'm horrified and convinced it'll be a hot mess. But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.

Steph L. - Mar 09, 2014 5:34:45 pm PDT #22165 of 28344

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.

Right there with you.

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