Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

'Safe'


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."


Sue - Sep 29, 2017 4:02:06 pm PDT #24780 of 28212
hip deep in pie

The BBC is producing the first two books of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, Into the Woods and The Likeness, as an 8-part series. I am excited and I really hope they get it right. [link]

The writer is the same one who wrote the latest And Then They Were None. Which I liked, but didn't love.


sj - Sep 29, 2017 4:59:07 pm PDT #24781 of 28212
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Oooh!


hippocampus - Sep 30, 2017 6:26:22 am PDT #24782 of 28212
not your mom's socks.

Vortex, thank you. I am being safe as I can.


sj - Sep 30, 2017 6:33:14 am PDT #24783 of 28212
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

hippocampus, I'm so sorry you have to deal with a stalker. Take care.


Laura - Sep 30, 2017 6:36:42 am PDT #24784 of 28212
Our wings are not tired.

The BBC is producing the first two books of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series

That is exciting. I feel they can be done right.

It has been great having DH here, but he really cuts into my reading time. Big hopes for today because he has gone to my nephew's football game. Now to get off the computer and onto my Nook!


Atropa - Oct 01, 2017 1:52:27 pm PDT #24785 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

You guys! Thanks to a random Etsy search, I am getting a silkscreened portrait of Ray Bradbury, made with the text of "The Homecoming" (my favorite work by him), and SIGNED BY BRADBURY. [link]


Laura - Oct 01, 2017 2:11:22 pm PDT #24786 of 28212
Our wings are not tired.

Score! Nice, Jilli.


aurelia - Oct 04, 2017 6:25:49 pm PDT #24787 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I feel like others may appreciate this, from my current read:

"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When your are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."


-t - Oct 05, 2017 8:03:26 am PDT #24788 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So true.

I like the idea that a lot of our cognition is turning things (events, sensory inputs, whatever) into stories. That that's kind of what being human is all about.


bennett - Oct 05, 2017 8:09:17 am PDT #24789 of 28212

Mary Stewart's mysteries are finally available in digital format. There is joy in the world.