I only just found out that Kafka didn't want The Trial or The Castle (in addition to a bunch of other books) published either. He told his friend to destroy them but he didn't.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
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."
Polter-Cow - Feb 03, 2015 1:44:57 pm PST #22985 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
javachik - Feb 03, 2015 1:48:50 pm PST #22986 of 28342
Our wings are not tired.
And he was only 40 when he died. Ms. Lee has had a hell of a long life during which at ANY time she could have published a damned shopping list had she chosen (or changed her mind on this book). So to me it's highly suspect that three months after her fiercest protector (and lawyer), her sister, dies, she's changing her mind. Nope. There is no way the "statement" released today is Harper Lee's own words, and she has a recent history of "signing anything put in front of her." Shady shady shady shady.
Consuela - Feb 03, 2015 3:15:21 pm PST #22987 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, I'm coming down that way to, Nanita.
sumi - Feb 05, 2015 12:07:05 pm PST #22988 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
ABE.com article on Edward Gorey.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 11, 2015 6:20:27 am PST #22989 of 28342
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think I'll pass on reading the new book, but this is motivating me to check out and read To Kill a Mockingbird when I next have some free time.
Steph L. - Feb 11, 2015 6:26:04 am PST #22990 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I remember being the only person in my class who wasn't head-over-heels-this-is-my-favorite-book-in-all-of-bookdom for To Kill a Mockingbird, though -- to be clear -- I didn't dislike it. But I was a weird teen who preferred John Irving's enormously fucked-up books to anything considered a classic (and in retrospect, what teacher assigns Hotel New Hampshire to 17-year-olds???). I probably need to re-read To Kill a Mockingbird at some point.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 11, 2015 6:27:49 am PST #22991 of 28342
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Hotel New Hampshire might be my favorite book ever, but I also love To Kill a Mockingbird. Neither were assigned in school, but I did read TKAM for "outside reading".
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2015 6:49:39 am PST #22992 of 28342
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I've never actually read Mockingbird. I don't think my high school English class assigned it, but there were multiple English tracks, one for those who couldn't face Mr. Berryhill and one for those who could.
-t - Feb 11, 2015 7:03:58 am PST #22993 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Boo Radley is my spirit animal.
Beverly - Feb 11, 2015 9:07:37 am PST #22994 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
(blasphemer)My favorite thing about To Kill A Mockingbird is the line in Benny and Joon when Joon asks, "Having ourselves a little Boo Radley moment?" She was probably speaking of Robert Duvall in the movie, though. The book didn't make much impression on me. My fondness for the story is all for the movie.(/blasphemer)
Maybe I need to read it again, if I can get the echo of Gregory Peck out of my head.