OK, I will make up my own mind.
I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
-t - Jan 23, 2019 12:12:57 pm PST #25272 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Amy - Jan 23, 2019 1:04:37 pm PST #25273 of 28197
Because books.
I'm always tempted to adapt recipes from the bakery, but they're all a) metric, b) scaled, and c) enormous. I will say this, too -- watching home bakers laminate dough is all the way impressive. We have a sheeter for that (and even then it's an effort.)
I just finished Sawkill Girls (YA, Michelle LeGrande), and it sort of blew me away. It was everything I could have wanted in a story about the power of girls, the strength of girls, and girls sticking together. That said, the prose got a little purple at the end, but I couldn't even get too mad at it.
-t - Jan 25, 2019 7:11:42 am PST #25274 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, Bone Witch is really absorbing (I went with ebook, ftr). I feel I have gotten multiple recs for Sawkill Girls recently, may have to check that out.
Tom Scola - Feb 01, 2019 12:26:27 pm PST #25275 of 28197
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
sj - Feb 01, 2019 3:56:24 pm PST #25276 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'll be at the library bookstore tomorrow morning from 7-9 board time, if anyone is looking for something specific.
hippocampus - Feb 04, 2019 6:12:15 am PST #25277 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
(Hi i am on deadline, not here, etc.) I've read half of this. I stopped when my brain started making screeeee sounds and kind of went off the rails.
SO I'm going to put this link down, line it in fireproof coverings and then wrap it in signs that say caution for -- oh god so many reasons but most particularly because there's a whole level of munchausen's by proxy by email gaslighting bs in here that may not be unfamiliar to some friends.
and also W. T. F. B. B. Q. with every possible topping and a sea anchor and a nopetopus on top.
hippocampus - Feb 04, 2019 6:13:21 am PST #25278 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
(also ps I miss you guys terribly) (ok that's it I'm really going because I can't procrastinate today)
Amy - Feb 04, 2019 6:15:05 am PST #25279 of 28197
Because books.
I just read that. Fucked. Up. Also, how do people continue to get away with this in the age of the Internet? Baffling.
amyth - Feb 04, 2019 7:41:12 am PST #25280 of 28197
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
The last paragraph!!!
Amy - Feb 04, 2019 7:48:07 am PST #25281 of 28197
Because books.
Right?!