Heh. You ain't seen nothing yet.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Sep 03, 2014 7:44:03 pm PDT #22629 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Polter-Cow - Sep 03, 2014 8:23:07 pm PDT #22630 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There's a lot of book left and I'm scared and clearly I need to pay more attention all the time.
sumi - Sep 04, 2014 4:56:02 am PDT #22631 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
From way upthread: I feel much cooler to have in some way contributed to Ms. Hillenbrand seeing the Faulkner Derby story.
Unconnected: I like the animals in Harry Dresden's life and I knew what Mouse was (i.e., what breed of dog) almost as soon as he was introduced. . . although I find it hard to believe that even at a very young age that sort of dog is that small, you know?
Connie Neil - Sep 04, 2014 5:40:20 am PDT #22632 of 28343
brillig
I adored Mouse and everyone's reactions to him. "Wait--you have a *real* temple dog? The Powers that Be *let* you keep him?"
I figured Mouse would be whatever size he needed to be.
DebetEsse - Sep 04, 2014 10:56:17 pm PDT #22633 of 28343
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have read 230 pages of Verity in the last 12 hours, and there was a dress rehearsal in there.
Yes, close reading for salient details (I will say that I am proud of myself for immediately grasping two things. Unless I'm wrong about those things. Of course, I'm sure I missed several more.)
I will also say this for YA, I am much more likely to be up all night reading it than I am with Srs ltrture.
lisah - Sep 05, 2014 10:41:23 am PDT #22634 of 28343
Punishingly Intricate
I don't understand why Code Name Verity would have been categorized as a YA book at all.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2014 10:51:39 am PDT #22635 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The main character's age seems to be the determinant factor, but this feels like The Book Thief, where it could could have gone either way, marketing-wise.
Pix - Sep 09, 2014 9:33:34 pm PDT #22636 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.
Just finished the last Skulduggery book. So! Good! And much less painful than I was expecting, though not without its moments.
Steph L. - Sep 09, 2014 9:52:44 pm PDT #22637 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I haven't even started it yet, so this is good to hear!
-t - Sep 11, 2014 4:17:49 am PDT #22638 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not sure what I want to say about Dying of the Light. I never had to actually put it in the freezer, but I did have to close it up and walk away from it a few times. Mostly I want to start at the beginning and read the whole series again without having to wait between books...