Oh, god, the Laffertys.
Welcome to the Hellmouth petting zoo.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2014 5:00:19 pm PDT #22157 of 28344
brillig
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.
Atropa - Mar 09, 2014 6:24:05 pm PDT #22166 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.
Yep. And if she does a book tour stop that comes anywhere near Seattle, I'll be there. Bonkers or not, that woman's writing was/is a huge influence on me.