Have any of you read anythign by Marcus Selfridge? He's coming to speak to my class in two weeks and I haven't read anything by him yet.
Never heard of him. What does he write? I can't find any listing for that name on amazon.
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
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."
sj - Apr 09, 2015 4:13:14 pm PDT #23173 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Consuela - Apr 09, 2015 8:37:57 pm PDT #23174 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Anne, I downloaded the sample chapter of Station Eleven and liked what I read, but I've got a backlog of reading to do, so I haven't picked it up yet. Maybe for my plane ride in a couple of weeks...
Juliebird - Apr 09, 2015 9:50:35 pm PDT #23175 of 28342
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm reading Child 44 and I now have so much whiplash from the POV changing from paragraph to paragraph.
Kat - Apr 10, 2015 3:30:31 am PDT #23176 of 28342
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA! I got the name wrong. This is what happens when I don't pay enough attention and I'm catching up on TV at the same time as posting (I was watching Jeremy Piven).
Marcus Sedgwick! He wrote Revolver and Midwinterblood.
sj - Apr 10, 2015 3:38:13 am PDT #23177 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That was the name that amazon suggested I may be looking for. I've heard of him but never read him.
Sue - Apr 10, 2015 4:09:06 am PDT #23178 of 28342
hip deep in pie
I read Station Eleven and thought it was really well done. I don't normally like when stories get tied neatly in a bow, but this was so well done, I didn't mind at all.
Ginger - Apr 10, 2015 8:09:51 am PDT #23179 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Station Eleven is waiting for me at the library after months on hold.
megan walker - Apr 10, 2015 8:22:51 am PDT #23180 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm reading Child 44 and I now have so much whiplash from the POV changing from paragraph to paragraph.
Huh. I don't remember that at all. But it might be because I get really tired of crime books that use POV simply as a means to hide things from the reader.
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2015 6:54:57 am PDT #23181 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just signed up as a supporting member of Worldcon so I can vote in the Hugos this year--which I'm mentioning in case others didn't realize it was an option. (I certainly didn't before this week.) It costs $40, but I decided that was a price I was happy to pay as a fan, a writer whose next project is likely to be fantasy, and a mother of an 11-year-old girl who's already ensconced in fandom and dreams of designing video games and/or creating her own comics and/or graphic novels someday.
Strix - Apr 11, 2015 10:31:04 am PDT #23182 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, anyone can vote in the Hugos if they pays their fees, and I think that's why the Sad Puppy hooraw is such a big deal. I think voting for the Nebulas is more restrictive...yeah, to vote you have to be an Active Member of SFWA, and for that, you have to be a published, for-pay writer. I could be an Affiliate Member, but I couldn't vote.
I'll probably become an Affiliate Member next year.