Bummer.
Thanks again for trying.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'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."
SuziQ - Feb 18, 2015 1:59:13 pm PST #23024 of 28342
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
tommyrot - Feb 18, 2015 2:02:04 pm PST #23025 of 28342
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Whether or not a book is loanable is determined by the publisher, btw.
megan walker - Feb 18, 2015 7:33:54 pm PST #23026 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does anyone know how you get the books you have read on Goodreads to count toward your challenge? I google and it says to change the date read, but I can't see how to do that on the iPhone app!
Sophia, if you just change a book status to read I don't think it gets assigned a date. I don't have an iPhone, but if you can't get "date read" to appear as a column in your "read" list, you should be able to change the date by "editing" your review (even if you don't write reviews there is a spot on the form for the date read).
esse - Feb 21, 2015 3:19:31 pm PST #23027 of 28342
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
You can also do that by going to the review individually and changing the date there.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 21, 2015 5:11:00 pm PST #23028 of 28342
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank you! It looks like I can do it on the computer, but not my phone.
Kat - Feb 26, 2015 1:25:42 pm PST #23029 of 28342
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Has anyone read Althea & Oliver? I think it's great and unpredictable and a whole bunch of other stuff. But I have lots of feels about how rape is portrayed in this book and most of those feels are angry and annoyed.
Amy - Feb 26, 2015 4:26:37 pm PST #23030 of 28342
Because books.
I haven't read it, Kat. Now I want to!
Kat - Feb 26, 2015 4:45:54 pm PST #23031 of 28342
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm putting this here for now. Things Althea & Oliver get right.
1. The potential for that enmeshed friendship that occurs when you have known someone for so long.
2. Unrequited feelings and how ambiguous it can be for both people. It's not always leading someone on or taking advantage. But it's more complicated.
3. The sheer amount of alcohol and cigarette consumption that can (and does) happen in high school. Not in a romantic way, but in a totally blase way.
4. Sometimes sex can cause ambivalence too. I'm not saying that Althea did not rape Oliver (I absolutely believe she did). I think that even though he was the aggressor and initiated sex and initiated sort of unpleasant bad sex, he was still taken advantage of. I think that his confusion about how to feel about it and his blithe getting over it is sort of right, as someone who was in that situation when I was too drunk to say no in college. There has been a ton of writing about how fucked up and wrong it was and how the author should have come down harder on rape, but I will say, what happens in the aftermath felt more real than anything I have read around this. Just pure ambivalence.
5. These characters are terrible and messy and wonderful and damn, it felt like, minus the disease, a snapshot of how I grew up.
Amy - Feb 26, 2015 4:49:01 pm PST #23032 of 28342
Because books.
Well, now I'm definitely interested. I'll look for it at the library.
I just started Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and it's amazing. No idea why I'm so late to the party, but so glad I'm reading it now.
Kat - Feb 26, 2015 4:55:16 pm PST #23033 of 28342
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I really liked Fun Home. I should re read because I can't remember it at all.
I have been in a state of ecstatic reading which has included:
- Both Jandy Nelson books (the one that one the Prinz was great).
- All of the Saga comics (I'm so late to that party, so don't worry, Amy).
- Lots of JoJo Moyes
- All the Truth In Me which was amazing.