Insent, msbelle
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 - Jul 09, 2019 3:30:25 pm PDT #25414 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
msbelle - Jul 09, 2019 4:19:22 pm PDT #25415 of 28197
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thank you!
Vonnie K - Jul 10, 2019 9:49:06 am PDT #25416 of 28197
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Apparently Shonda Rhimes is adapting several Bridgerton novels (a well-known romance novel series by Julia Quinn) for Netflix with a multiracial cast: [link]
I've read maybe 3 of the books? I remember really liking the one with Colin and Penelope in particular. Anyway, color me psyched!
Amy - Jul 10, 2019 10:06:57 am PDT #25417 of 28197
Because books.
I've seen Quinn posting about this, and between this and the Leigh Bardugo universe coming to Netflix, I am over the moon.
meara - Jul 10, 2019 12:49:47 pm PDT #25418 of 28197
That sounds awesome!
Calli - Jul 11, 2019 4:08:36 am PDT #25419 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think I recall Courtney Milan posting about this, saying that Quinn was one of her favorite authors and that she's totally there for the multiracial casting. And Milan's casting shade on people who are willing to believe in dozens of single, ripped Dukes willing to marry penniless wallflowers, but who can't suspend disbelief for multiracial aristos. Which existed in reality, probably more so than dukes who looked like one of Marvel's Chrises marrying women like, say, me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2019 6:51:44 am PDT #25420 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
Don't Monaco and Sweden pretty much have the market cornered on hot European royals? If someone's making up new highly attractive nobility, they might as well be the product of interracial marriages with outsiders, 'cause I don't see many models resulting from Windsor or Habsburg cousins marrying.
Amy - Jul 11, 2019 7:13:42 am PDT #25421 of 28197
Because books.
Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series was set in Regency England.
Toddson - Jul 11, 2019 8:12:40 am PDT #25422 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, the Brits have Harry ....
Kate P. - Jul 30, 2019 6:09:01 pm PDT #25423 of 28197
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hit up a massive local used bookstore today and scored a late Joan Aiken, a Moomintroll book, and Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, one I loved as a kid. This place is a goldmine for picking up all kinds of children's fantasy classics. My last trip there in June netted me Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. Slowly but surely, I'm building up the library that 10-year-old me would have killed for (and that hopefully my kids will love, or at least appreciate, one day too).