Aww! I like how excited and fannish the author sounds!
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'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."
meara - Mar 28, 2017 7:09:07 am PDT #24447 of 28260
Kat - Mar 28, 2017 8:11:42 am PDT #24448 of 28260
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Vortex, I have about 50 copies of HMT. Ping me your snail mail and I'll drop one in the mail to you. msgullo at gmail.
Encyclopedia Brown is totally sexist but still fun to read. Though some of the solutions are both implausible or too easy.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2017 9:50:52 am PDT #24449 of 28260
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My main criticism of Nancy Drew at this point is that she only spends like 15 minutes at a time investigating, and then she goes off to play shuffleboard or whatever for the rest of the day.
-t - Mar 28, 2017 10:14:59 am PDT #24450 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's odd that thinking about The Handmaid's Tale always gets me thinking about the narrative device of the bag full of cassette tapes and how anachronistic that seems now, isn't it? Maybe because the oppression and what not is contrariwise so plausible and timely.
sumi - Mar 29, 2017 8:38:19 pm PDT #24451 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
Random: They built a house for their books.
Laura - Mar 30, 2017 3:29:06 am PDT #24452 of 28260
Our wings are not tired.
Little house for books sounds like an awesome idea to me. Also, super cute.
zuisa - Mar 30, 2017 5:38:36 am PDT #24453 of 28260
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Anyone read "The Luminaries"? I know it's supposed to be great but I just read the Kindle sample and I'm not sure how I feel about.
Beverly - Mar 30, 2017 8:10:49 am PDT #24454 of 28260
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No insulation in that tiny house for books, Georgia muggy heat in summer, rain, and cold damp in winter. I can't imagine they leave the woodstove burning all the time--that looks like a recipe for mold, mildew, paper and glue deterioration and book loss to me.
Cute idea, impractical implementation.
-t - Mar 30, 2017 8:20:38 am PDT #24455 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Depends on what the alternatives are. Are these books that would otherwise be in boxes in an uninsulated garage or shed? Then being on shelves and being read would be an improvement, I would say.
sj - Mar 30, 2017 8:50:50 am PDT #24456 of 28260
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think I have more books than would fit in that tiny house.