RIP Natalie Babbitt.
I have a distinct problem with 2016. It is breaking my heart in a thousand pieces.
Tonight especially.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
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."
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2016 2:16:48 pm PDT #24164 of 28266
not your mom's socks.
Kate P. - Oct 31, 2016 5:10:56 pm PDT #24165 of 28266
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh man. That's a tough one.
Toddson - Nov 01, 2016 5:46:19 am PDT #24166 of 28266
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Also, I saw that Sherri S. Tepper had died.
Connie Neil - Nov 01, 2016 5:47:45 am PDT #24167 of 28266
brillig
I will have to re-read Grass and the others in her honor.
Rayne - Nov 07, 2016 12:45:13 pm PST #24168 of 28266
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
These are coooool. I wish was an author so I could get my work printed on a scarf! In all the colors!
Dana - Nov 16, 2016 2:34:51 pm PST #24169 of 28266
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
While hunting down covers for ebook versions of books I owned and must therefore have the proper covers for, I discovered this article about Rilla of Ingleside:
And at the end, it mentions:
Republished in 2011 in an unabridged version, including 4,500 words cut from the initial publication and contextual notes for the modern reader, Rilla is due to be rediscovered as a classic.
Has anyone read this unabridged version?
meara - Nov 16, 2016 4:44:11 pm PST #24170 of 28266
Rilla was just the book on Billfold today (they do a series on books and money) and they mentioned that toast article! I don't think I've re-read it since I was in high school though. The one their series made me want to re-read was the Betsy-Tacy books
Consuela - Nov 16, 2016 7:32:40 pm PST #24171 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana, in the comments to that post someone notes that it's not one chunk of text, but bits of it scattered throughout.
Dana - Nov 17, 2016 4:48:36 am PST #24172 of 28266
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm going to have to get my hands on it. It's definitely a book I've come to enjoy more as I've aged. I kind of resented not having more stories about Anne when I was younger.
Dana - Nov 17, 2016 6:55:47 am PST #24173 of 28266
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And after much poking around, I've discovered that my ebook is the unabridged version. It's available at Project Gutenberg.