Congrats, Hippo! May you feel fabulous, whatever you wear.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'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."
Beverly - Apr 05, 2017 2:55:12 pm PDT #24490 of 28239
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Katerina Bee - Apr 11, 2017 6:00:44 pm PDT #24491 of 28239
Herding cats for fun
I wonder if anyone ever wears one of those Trashion creations and walks out in a dress made out of books? That would look nice and reference the source material too.
sumi - Apr 13, 2017 1:02:57 pm PDT #24492 of 28239
Art Crawl!!!
Neil Gaiman interview on the NYT Book Review podcast.
-t - Apr 13, 2017 9:24:07 pm PDT #24493 of 28239
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There are 18 books in Cherryh's Foreigner series?!? Why did I think it had concluded way back when?
aurelia - Apr 14, 2017 5:29:13 am PDT #24494 of 28239
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That was my thought, too. I only knew about 6 and I think I've only read 4.
-t - Apr 14, 2017 6:13:48 am PDT #24495 of 28239
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
All those one word titles are so similar, I'm having trouble figuring out which I've read. I think maybe just the first trilogy. And if I've got 15 books to catch up on maybe I should just start at the beginning anyway, that was a long time ago I'm sure I've forgotten a lot.
Laura - Apr 14, 2017 7:42:16 am PDT #24496 of 28239
Our wings are not tired.
I'm so confused! Has anyone else had odd pagination issues with Nook? I was psyched to finally read The Jewel and Her Lapidary, but I was confused with the page count being 50 when the Nook edition shows 80 pages. It was a whole and satisfying story so I don't think they chopped out 30 pages, but it was just peculiar that the page count was wrong.
So I wrote to them asking about the difference and they replied -
I have confirmed that the problem you described with "The Jewel and Her Lapidary " results from a content issue. Please respond to this email if you wish to have this order refunded while waiting for the NOOK Book's content to be fixed. You can repurchase the title at a later date after the issue has been resolved.
I replied that no, I didn't want a refund, but could they just update the content when they fix it.
This was the absolute only issue I had with the book, which is clearly an issue with Barnes & Noble and not with the author!
eta: but where my 30 pages be?
sumi - Apr 15, 2017 6:05:24 am PDT #24497 of 28239
Art Crawl!!!
I somehow just managed to find this: "Nevertheless, she persisted" - a short fiction event on tor.com.
sumi - Apr 15, 2017 6:06:19 am PDT #24498 of 28239
Art Crawl!!!
Laura - I find that pagination with e-books is extremely inexplicable. Whether they use page numbers or "location" numbers (as with Kindle).
Calli - Apr 15, 2017 6:42:33 am PDT #24499 of 28239
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The page numbers differ on the same ebook depending on whether I'm reading it on my phone or my computer. That's probably because of the difference in screen size, which affects the amount of text can fit on a given page.