Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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."
I do love John Green's work (well, the two I've read), but I am so tired of him and The Fault in Our Stars right now. The movie PR is bad enough, but if you're in the YA sphere online, no one has talked about anything BUT John Green (and his influence, etc.) for months.
Which is not to be grumpy about the linked article! Just to say I, personally, am sort of Green'd out at the moment.
I just realized today that John Green is not the same person as John Scalzi
I am so tired of him and The Fault in Our Stars right now. The movie PR is bad enough
I haven't read the book, but I understand from people whose opinion/taste I respect that it's very good. That said, I have ZERO desire to see the Teen Cancer Movie Where At Least One Character is Obviously Going To Die. NOPE.
(Seriously, no one needs to try to change my Philistine mind. I get to decide what kind of emotional beatdown my fiction gives me, and I choose not to see the teen cancer movie.)
I just realized today that John Green is not the same person as John Scalzi
HA!! No, they are very different people. John Scalzi, for instance, is incredibly conscious of his privilege and does everything he can to redirect conversations when people hold him up as Popular Science Fiction Author (who just happens to be a straight white male, hm, why are we talking about him all the time).
I am amused that the same actor plays Shailene Woodley's less-than-endearing brother in Divergent and cancer boyfriend in The Fault in Our Stars. That's got to be weird.
That said, I have ZERO desire to see the Teen Cancer Movie Where At Least One Character is Obviously Going To Die. NOPE.
Yup! Character death is on my list of things I don't have to watch in movies if I don't want to, because I am an adult. Also includes wars (especially WWII), Nazis, former Nazis, dying parents, parents with dementia, and bleak stories of drug addiction.
Yeah, no thank you!
I'm actually pretty excited to see the movie. And I certainly love his books. But I also love Rainbow Rowell's books and she has a new one in July. So.
I actually love The Fault in Our Stars so well I'm not sure I want to see the movie. My memory of the book is so perfect, you know? But I'm sure I'll see it eventually.
In more depressing literary news: [link]
I found out the other day that the trainer I work with also works with Laurell K. Hamilton. Oh, the poker face I had to put on when he asked if I knew about/liked her books...