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.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'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."
Amy - Aug 24, 2018 6:54:31 am PDT #25144 of 28197
Because books.
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.
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2018 11:16:42 am PDT #25150 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Todd, I just read that about 15 minutes ago in our local news (P&G is headquartered here), and my exact reaction was "...didn't Cockygate put an end to this nonsense???"
Toddson - Aug 24, 2018 11:22:11 am PDT #25151 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There was also the author who tried to trademark "dragon slayer" ... don't think that ever went anywhere.
-t - Aug 24, 2018 11:41:34 am PDT #25152 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I wonder if anyone at P&G remembers when their logo was rumored to be satanic.
Toddson - Aug 24, 2018 11:47:25 am PDT #25153 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh, I'd forgotten about that!