Buffistas

See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.

Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'

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."

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-t - Mar 18, 2017 5:05:13 pm PDT #24418 of 28260

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 28260

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 28260

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 28260

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 28260

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Dressing the chicken!!

Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2017 1:56:56 pm PDT #24423 of 28260

brillig

I found Amelia Bedelia annoying.

-t - Mar 20, 2017 2:11:06 pm PDT #24424 of 28260

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 28260

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!

Gris - Mar 20, 2017 3:39:45 pm PDT #24426 of 28260

Hey. New board.

I read that one recently to my son. It was at my mother-in-law's house. He liked it! Dusting the furniture, dressing the chicken, drawing the curtains. Puns.

sj - Mar 20, 2017 4:33:14 pm PDT #24427 of 28260

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I had one Amelia Bedelia book as a kid. It was an I Can Read book, and I think it had something to do with baseball, maybe?

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