sigh ... Tom Wolfe has died
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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."
Toddson - May 15, 2018 12:20:49 pm PDT #25050 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sumi - May 22, 2018 1:29:11 pm PDT #25051 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
Did you guys know that Pearl S. Buck has a short story called "The Golden Bowl"?
I didn't - was quite confused when our catalog didn't recognize the serial number for the James novel but when I did a title search pulled up a collection of Buck's stories.
Why was the James not recognized? I guess that it was a "long overdue" book that somehow just got reshelved.
Atropa - May 30, 2018 7:44:49 pm PDT #25052 of 28200
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I finally (finally!) read The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson. Only a year and a half after Mr. Loomy gave it to me for Christmas, as he reminded me. On the one hand, I love Kij's writing. On the other hand, I am not enough of a Lovecraft geek to catch half of the references.
Dana - Jun 01, 2018 7:44:12 am PDT #25053 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am LOLing at the preliminary response by the defendants in the Cockygate...situation. Selected excerpts:
Indeed, contrary to Plaintiffs' unsupported allegations that Ms. Watson "played a key role in a juggernaut attack on [Plaintiffs'] trademarks, books and person, Ms. Watson played no role whatsoever in the conception, creation, authorship, decision to publish, or publication of The Cocktales Anthology and otherwise lacks any authority to halt or impact its publication.
Cocky is a commonly used term in the titles of romance novels, in part because of its double entendre as a sexual innuendo that references part of the male anatomy and a synonym for being arrogant or a "bad boy" – both of which are relevant themes in these types of stories.
Cocktales, too, exceeds the low threshold of artistic relevance, as does the use of "the Cocky Collective" to refer to the forty author-contributors and the wording "authors who take cockiness to a whole new level" on the cover.
It should be noted that Cocktales currently sits at #25 on the USA Today Best Selling Books List.
Toddson - Jun 01, 2018 8:04:40 am PDT #25054 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think it would be HIGHLY amusing to have Chuck Tingle chime in on this.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 01, 2018 8:11:09 am PDT #25055 of 28200
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That is so funny! I am dying of laughter.
Hil or Fay (can't remember which) linked to a book written because of "Cockygate" called "His Cocky Valet", which was pretty good for being written in a couple days.
Toddson - Jun 01, 2018 10:02:37 am PDT #25056 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I know Courtney Milan (love her books!) is a lawyer in real life under her real name. And Kevin Kneupper has been doing a lawsuit (pro bono). I bought one of his books on the strength of this suit.
amych - Jun 01, 2018 3:32:45 pm PDT #25057 of 28200
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think it would be HIGHLY amusing to have Chuck Tingle chime in on this.
Like Tingle would pass this up: [link]
Dana - Jun 01, 2018 5:42:15 pm PDT #25058 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calli - Jun 02, 2018 3:38:24 am PDT #25059 of 28200
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Do we know what the judge looks like? Because I'd like to have a mental image of the person who went to law school, did his time as a lawyer, and clawed his way into the judiciary, just to have to say "cocky" 30 times in under 2 minutes. With (presumably) a straight face.