Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.

Gunn ,'Underneath'


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."


juliana - Aug 19, 2018 5:54:42 am PDT #25140 of 28197
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I am halfway through Space Opera now, and I'm enjoying it immensely.

My mom saw Gretchen Carlson speak on PBS the other day and sent me her latest book, Be Fierce, because I am also a fierce woman (she says). My mom has never watched Fox News and really isn't up to date on much of anything. I'm womanfully not telling her exactly what I think of Gretchen Carlson or the mere existence of the book, of which I don't have the spoons to read.


aurelia - Aug 19, 2018 8:08:36 am PDT #25141 of 28197
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

You could respond with Make Trouble by Cecile Richards.


Toddson - Aug 20, 2018 9:24:35 am PDT #25142 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

N.K. Jemisin made history - she's the first to win the Hugo for best novel three years running. Here's her acceptance speech.


-t - Aug 21, 2018 5:01:01 pm PDT #25143 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Finally got a chance to watch the speech. I will follow her anywhere.


Amy - Aug 24, 2018 6:54:31 am PDT #25144 of 28197
Because books.

Anyone else read or are reading Our Kind of Cruelty, by Araminta Hall?

My library hold just came in and I just started it. It looks fantastic.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2018 7:53:17 am PDT #25145 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Oooh, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon at work. I am quite confident I was completely unaware of "Araminta" as a name before the last couple of weeks.


Jesse - Aug 24, 2018 8:50:33 am PDT #25146 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's a character in Crazy Rich Asians, right?


Amy - Aug 24, 2018 8:59:35 am PDT #25147 of 28197
Because books.

I have an old children's book that was my mom's and the doll in it is named Araminta.


bennett - Aug 24, 2018 9:19:32 am PDT #25148 of 28197

I checked Google Books Ngram viewer - which plots the frequency of words in Google Books over time - and the first use of "Araminta" is in 1709 - [link] .

FWIW.


Toddson - Aug 24, 2018 10:06:24 am PDT #25149 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Remember Cockygate? well, in corporate news, P&G Wants to Trademark LOL and Other Millennial Phrases.