Amtrak's first 24 writers in residence.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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."
sumi - Sep 25, 2014 11:05:18 am PDT #22717 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Consuela - Sep 25, 2014 11:06:35 am PDT #22718 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Indeed. It made me go read some of Wein's earlier work, but I didn't like it nearly as much.
I do want a yuletide crossover of CNV, Narnia, and Montmaray, starting all the awesome women fighting Nazis.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 7:28:30 am PDT #22719 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
OH MY GOD CODE NAME VERITY OH MY GOD.
I just went through so many fucking emotions on the drive to work today. First, she reveals her real name and FOR FUCK'S SAKE SHE WAS ANOTHER CHARACTER IN THE STORY ALL THIS TIME TOO. Second, the reader fucking brought me to tears with her ever-more-emotional repetition of "I have told the truth." Third, DRAT DOUBLE DRAT MADDIE'S FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE IS FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE MADDIE MADDIIIIIE GO FUCKING SAVE JULIE PLEASE.
Consuela - Sep 26, 2014 11:11:31 am PDT #22720 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, P-C.
t offers tissues
Also, I can't believe you didn't know the narrator was Queenie. Seriously?
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 11:33:35 am PDT #22721 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, of course I knew that. I already posted about that. But she's Queenie, and she's ALSO Eva, and then she's ALSO Stewart (and this time she even provided all the goddamn flashback lines to put those scenes in context).
Strix - Sep 26, 2014 5:06:28 pm PDT #22722 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm deriving great delight from this reaction. There's a lot of HSQ in this book!
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 8:56:24 pm PDT #22723 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It looks like I've got about a couple hours left, so I think I'll wait a week and save this whole last stretch for the drive from Chattanooga to Nashville (my rental car better have auxiliary input) rather than break it up over a week.
Ugh IT WAS MADDIE'S IDEA TO SEND IN THE REPORTER. MADDIE IS FUCKING SLEEPING IN THE ROOM OF JULIE'S TORTURER. GODFUCKINGDAMMIT.
Gris - Sep 28, 2014 5:51:22 am PDT #22724 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Cool. We can discuss it at dinner.
erikaj - Sep 28, 2014 8:25:55 am PDT #22725 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
Anyone else read "The Flamethrowers"?(especially if you can tell me why it got such orgasmic reviews. Although it is helping its cause that it smells marginally less of hippie perfume.) Don't get me wrong--I like it fine, and have moderate curiosity about what happens to our narrator, but I have no desire to stop what I'm doing and rewrite it like Rachel Kushner would or anything...is this another thing I missed because I went to a state university?
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2014 9:43:11 am PDT #22726 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I started the last Skulduggery Pleasant book finally. Now that I'm several chapters in to it, the first chapter confuses the shit out of me. (Which I'm aware it's meant to do, and I have no doubt it will all make sense sooner or later, but it's still bugging me.) (I'm also perplexed by the reflection ignoring the memory stick that was delivered to the Edgleys' house. I have a theory about that, but I'll just put a pin in my theory for now.)
I haven't put the book in the freezer. YET.