Of all the details (SO MANY DETAILS) in that whole fuckety-upety thing, the completely made up second doctorate before age 30 in Munchhausen studies was the most.
Jayne: 'Cause I don't know these folks. Don't much care to. Mal: They're whores. Jayne: I'm in.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
amych - Feb 04, 2019 5:14:39 pm PST #25288 of 28197
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DavidS - Feb 04, 2019 5:37:16 pm PST #25289 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of all the details (SO MANY DETAILS) in that whole fuckety-upety thing, the completely made up second doctorate before age 30 in Munchhausen studies was the most.
I liked the author who keeps using him as the model for psychopathic characters and then saying he's always been good to her.
His super bullshitty not-apology about getting caught out on the cancer lies at the end was absolutely teeth grinding.
What a fucking liar.
aurelia - Feb 04, 2019 10:14:05 pm PST #25290 of 28197
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh. And the PhD for studying Munchausens. OMG.
I think that book is one my parents sent home with me at Christmas. I probably don't need to read it now. I can't believe Tracy Letts is now tied to this mess.
Amy - Feb 05, 2019 4:49:38 am PST #25291 of 28197
Because books.
I can't figure out how any employer would allow him to just not be there for months without any documentation.
Yeah, publishing can be loose, but that's really loose.
The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh.
Hee.
-t - Feb 05, 2019 4:58:06 am PST #25292 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie! I don't know how to feel about that.
Gudanov - Feb 05, 2019 5:04:22 am PST #25293 of 28197
Coding and Sleeping
I don't really see the point of authorized continuations of Agatha Christie.
-t - Feb 05, 2019 5:06:41 am PST #25294 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, beloved characters.
Dana - Feb 05, 2019 5:07:34 am PST #25295 of 28197
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I read the first Poirot one, and I literally can't remember if I finished it. Do not recommend.
Amy - Feb 05, 2019 5:19:37 am PST #25296 of 28197
Because books.
I didn't really like the one Sophie Hannah book I tried, Little Face.
I'm reading Kate Atkinson's fourth Jackson Brodie book now, and I heard she's finally coming out with a new one this year (or next year?). I also have to get her latest non-Brodie book, Transcription.
Calli - Feb 05, 2019 5:28:52 am PST #25297 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie!
Me neither.
I don't know how to feel about that.
Me neither.
There are authorized continuations of Dorothy Sayers's Peter Whimsey novels (whose work I like a lot more than Christie's—feel free to come at me full muffuletta about it). One of them, Thones, Dominions, was created from a novel that Sayers had started. Jill Patton Walsh finished it. While I felt like I could see the seams between the two author's work, I felt the final novel was worth reading. And I was glad to spend a little more time with Lord and Lady Peter. Walsh has since published three more novels in Sayer's Whimsey-verse. I didn't read the last two, but that's more because I was distracted by something shiny than that Walsh sucks. She's not Sayers, but she does a solid job.