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.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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 28344
Because books.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2018 7:53:17 am PDT #25145 of 28344
"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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh, I'd forgotten about that!