Also, I saw that Sherri S. Tepper had died.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
Toddson - Nov 01, 2016 5:46:19 am PDT #24166 of 28686
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Connie Neil - Nov 01, 2016 5:47:45 am PDT #24167 of 28686
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 28686
"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 28686
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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 28686
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 28686
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 28686
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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 28686
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
And after much poking around, I've discovered that my ebook is the unabridged version. It's available at Project Gutenberg.
sj - Nov 22, 2016 8:14:31 am PST #24174 of 28686
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I was just searching this thread to see what other people had to say about The Girl on the Train, and apparently the reason Mom couldn't find her copy when I asked for it is because she gave it to me when I was 5 months pregnant. I know this only because I posted about it here. I have no memory of this or any idea what pile that copy may be in. Anyway, I main lined the last two hundred pages of it yesterday while ltc took an extra long nap and after she went to sleep for the night because I had to know how it ended. I found it a much faster read than Gone Girl, but unlike GG, TGotT never made me gasp out loud. I was expecting the twist to be more twisted.
Laura - Nov 22, 2016 9:40:58 am PST #24175 of 28686
Our wings are not tired.
So my reader son asked me what I was reading over the weekend and I told him about Cloudbound. Not surprisingly he expressed interest and when he went with me to my dentist appointment yesterday he snagged my Nook while I was in the chair and got to page 66 of Updraft before the battery died. New fan!
He's a great one to buy real books for too because he rereads often. Yay!