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Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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juliana - Aug 19, 2018 5:54:42 am PDT #25140 of 28497

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 28497

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 28497

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 28497

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 28497

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 28497

"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 28497

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 28497

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 28497

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 28497

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

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

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