Buffistas

Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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Amy - Mar 18, 2017 3:39:00 pm PDT #24416 of 28686

Because books.

I loved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! And Amelia Bedelia, too. *On further inspection, that seems wrong -- I'm remembering her as a sort of daft, funny housekeeper, and that's not what I'm seeing. Hmm.

Did anyone else read Understood Betsy? That was a favorite. And my mom's old copy of The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

Continuing my Louise Penny Immersion Program

My mom *loves* Gamache. I have the first one on my Kindle, and keep meaning to start it. I need a new mystery series, since Deborah Crombie is my only remaining one, and she's just one book a year now.

I miss the days when I hadn't yet discovered Anne Perry. Two lengthy series, no waiting. Good times.

Calli - Mar 18, 2017 3:59:51 pm PDT #24417 of 28686

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Continuing my Louise Penny Immersion Program

I adore her stuff. It's just so beautifully written. I want to live in Three Pines.

-t - Mar 18, 2017 5:05:13 pm PDT #24418 of 28686

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You are very sweet to not foist tomatoes on me KB. I appreciate it!

I not only want to live in Three Pines, I want to open a bookstore or maybe paint or sculpt or something. I love the way she writes about art. Maybe the Bistro needs a dumpling supplier.

Laura - Mar 19, 2017 4:17:02 am PDT #24419 of 28686

Our wings are not tired.

My Goodreads email this morning tempted me with super sales of NYT Bestsellers this morning so I exercised self control and only purchased 4 Nook books from new to me authors. $2.99 each! Today Only! If you get Goodreads emails you will see the offering.

Two of them are #1 in series. It is a comforting thing for me to read series because I don't like the feeling of never seeing interesting characters again.

EpicTangent - Mar 20, 2017 12:19:37 pm PDT #24420 of 28686

Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Amelia Bedelia, too. *On further inspection, that seems wrong -- I'm remembering her as a sort of daft, funny housekeeper, and that's not what I'm seeing. Hmm.

Also how I remember her. I have a specific memory of the family leaving her a note asking her to dust. She wasn't sure what they meant, then found the "dusting powder", so she liberally dusted it on everything.

-t - Mar 20, 2017 12:24:25 pm PDT #24421 of 28686

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's what I remember. And drawing the curtains. But baking wonderful pies, so worth the trouble.

Jesse - Mar 20, 2017 1:53:52 pm PDT #24422 of 28686

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Dressing the chicken!!

Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2017 1:56:56 pm PDT #24423 of 28686

brillig

I found Amelia Bedelia annoying.

-t - Mar 20, 2017 2:11:06 pm PDT #24424 of 28686

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, I had forgotten dressing the chicken, but it's coming back to me.

Amy - Mar 20, 2017 2:57:46 pm PDT #24425 of 28686

Because books.

It looks the original books were from the '60s, and the new ones (written mostly in the '90s by a family member) focused on Amelia as a child.

I have such an urge to go back and read the first original one. Dressing the chicken and dusting the furniture is coming back to me, too!

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