Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.

'Bushwhacked'


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."


Atropa - Jun 04, 2015 12:07:31 pm PDT #23390 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

the books appear to be out of print

Noooo! And I know they're not available digitally, which vexes me.


DavidS - Jun 04, 2015 2:36:21 pm PDT #23391 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I also really liked Tanith Lee's science fiction novel "Don't Bite the Sun" - which is sweet and strange and fun.

And the Flat Earth books, particularly Night's Master are cool in a louche, very sexy magical Arabian Knights kind of way.


-t - Jun 04, 2015 2:43:52 pm PDT #23392 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I should read more Tanith Lee. I loved what I have read, although at this point I can't remember the titles. Perhaps I would recognize them if I looked at a list? Perhaps. not sure if descriptions would even help, what I remember is very...abstract.


Strix - Jun 04, 2015 2:50:24 pm PDT #23393 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, no, Tanith Lee! I loved her collection "Tales from The Sisters Grimmmer." It really got me into the idea of revamped fairy tales, which of course Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have some up with some STELLAR anthologies on that theme.

I liked Gone Girl, but I REALLY loved Dark Places. I think Charlize will do a great job, but she's not who I had a visual image for the main character.


sj - Jun 04, 2015 2:52:20 pm PDT #23394 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Strix, I'm curious who you were picturing.


Strix - Jun 04, 2015 3:00:48 pm PDT #23395 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Emily Blunt, for some reason. (I also like that the series' are based in mostly MO; I'm all like, hey, the setting is partly KC! I know that place! Gillian Flynn is from KC, though; she went to Bishop Miege, a very good school, but I think she's a few years younger than I.)

I know ScarJo droppped out of Dark Places, and I think Charlize will do fine, but I would have cast ScarJo in Sharp Objects, personally, before Dark Places.


sj - Jun 04, 2015 3:12:58 pm PDT #23396 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I actually pictured ScarJo the entire time I was reading Dark Places. She seemed more the physical type, and I'm having a hard time picturing Charlize in the role


Strix - Jun 04, 2015 4:17:34 pm PDT #23397 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I didn't know about casting when I read the books, so I was actress-image free. And I'm thinking Emiy Blunt, but I was also thinking a slightly older Ellen Page. She's got the bitter down.


Atropa - Jun 06, 2015 5:26:32 pm PDT #23398 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

While out thrifting today, I found vintage Mary Stewart paperbacks! Nine Coaches Waiting and Touch Not the Cat ! My collection of gothic paperbacks slowly grows ...


Connie Neil - Jun 06, 2015 5:42:59 pm PDT #23399 of 28333
brillig

Oh, I adore Mary Stewart.