I just started reading The Doubt Factory, by Paolo Bacigalupi and I'm loving it so far. (It was released yesterday.) I loved The Windup Girl-- I'm gonna have to reread that soon.
ETA: excellent Boing Boing review: [link]
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
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."
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2014 11:10:30 am PDT #22767 of 28461
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Calli - Oct 24, 2014 4:07:08 pm PDT #22768 of 28461
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've reached the section of Mount Toberead containing The Hunger Games and read the first book. It was really compelling! I can see why the series took off.
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2014 10:15:07 pm PDT #22769 of 28461
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My 92 year old Mom has been reading Gone Girl. She has been laughing a lot and seems to consider it dark comedy. Thoughts?
aurelia - Oct 26, 2014 6:28:49 am PDT #22770 of 28461
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A lot of it is kind of funny. Until it's not.
Strix - Oct 26, 2014 7:23:15 am PDT #22771 of 28461
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Lots of it IS very darkly funny.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2014 8:37:40 am PDT #22772 of 28461
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The movie was also pretty funny.
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2014 8:43:14 am PDT #22773 of 28461
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sounds like I will have to put it on my list.
Gris - Oct 26, 2014 12:31:18 pm PDT #22774 of 28461
Hey. New board.
It's the kind of dark comedy that you're not 100% sure it's okay to be ruefully chuckling at but you do it anyway. I'd definitely put it in that category, heavy on the dark.
Amy - Oct 26, 2014 12:38:31 pm PDT #22775 of 28461
Because books.
What Gris said. And I loved it.
Tom Scola - Oct 26, 2014 3:03:22 pm PDT #22776 of 28461
hwæt
I’m watching George R. R. Martin (who is not home writing), live on Tumblr right now.