Today is Beverly Cleary's 100th birthday.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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."
dcp - Apr 12, 2016 6:21:02 am PDT #23855 of 28288
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
EpicTangent - Apr 12, 2016 9:47:49 am PDT #23856 of 28288
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
From that link:
Publisher HarperCollins recognizes her birthday, April 12, as National Drop Everything and Read Day (D.E.A.R.), in promotion of sustained silent reading.
I'm in!
Connie Neil - Apr 12, 2016 10:17:08 am PDT #23857 of 28288
brillig
My boss will disagree.
EpicTangent - Apr 12, 2016 11:48:45 am PDT #23858 of 28288
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Yes, except for my lunchbreak, my "in" was more theoretical than practical, unfortunately.
Gris - Apr 12, 2016 3:38:32 pm PDT #23859 of 28288
Hey. New board.
I just finished Mirror Dance in my own epic re-read. But it turns out I had never read Mirror Dance at all! I don't think I own the Miles Errant omnibus in paperback, so there we are. I honestly am not sure I've read anything past this point.
I am taking a brief Vorkosibreak to read Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and then I will tackle Memory
-t - Apr 13, 2016 2:13:50 pm PDT #23860 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Mmm, Mirror Dance is so good. I still find the existence of the omnibuses (is that the right plural? Omnibi?) confusing, but having them is pretty convenient.
Have I mentioned that my Barrayar immersion is giving me cravings for kasha? Mmm, groats.
Toddson - Apr 14, 2016 5:39:56 am PDT #23861 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For eating? my understanding is that their primary use is in the wedding ceremony (joke).
Although from the books they sound like oatmeal, more or less.
-t - Apr 14, 2016 6:03:29 am PDT #23862 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
At one point it's described as "native groats" but every other native Barrayaran plant seems to be toxic so I've been picturing buckwheat groats; i.e., kasha. Which I have a fondness for anyway.
Jessica - Apr 14, 2016 8:54:33 am PDT #23863 of 28288
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For eating? my understanding is that their primary use is in the wedding ceremony (joke).
No, they eat them for breakfast too.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 19, 2016 7:26:18 am PDT #23864 of 28288
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I finished I Chaos Choreography (the latest inCytpid novel) and enjoyed it much like I did the others. It was good to have Verity back, but I'm hoping at some point there's a novel for the third sibling. She's mostly been enigmatic and bratty up to now, so I'd love to find out there's more going on there.
I did find the ending abrupt. Like really, REALLY abrupt, especially with Verity basically declaring war on the Covenant on live television, but it certainly kept me entertained.