Next week ICON SFF festival will take place virtually via live streaming, and there are two live events with authors (in English) that might interest some of you. The first is a conversation with Daryl Gregory and Kelly Link (Monday, 5/10, 10:00pm Israel time), and the other is a conversation with Stephanie Burgis (Tuesday, 6/10, 4:00pm Israel time). The website is mostly in Hebrew, but I can help interested parties to buy tickets and access the live stream.
All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Shir - Oct 04, 2020 2:17:01 am PDT #26144 of 28175
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
sj - Oct 06, 2020 7:35:56 am PDT #26145 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just started reading Mexican Gothic today, and now I have to stop to pick up ltc from school. I don't want to put it down!
amyparker - Oct 06, 2020 8:59:50 am PDT #26146 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
-t - Oct 06, 2020 9:02:36 am PDT #26147 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How wonderful! Well deserved, for sure
sj - Oct 06, 2020 9:21:28 am PDT #26148 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I saw that, definitely agree that it is well deserved!
DavidS - Oct 06, 2020 10:45:59 am PDT #26149 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
YA novelist, Jacqueline Woodson, also won a MacArthur.
amyparker - Oct 06, 2020 2:17:50 pm PDT #26150 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
My new Le Guin book arrived today, the LoA edition of Annals of the Western Shore, and it is very much an example of "Right action is rewarded - not immediately, not necessarily to the actor's personal benefit, not without changing the actor, but the world is affected for the better by it". Which is certainly something I need to be reminded of in the present moment.
(Plus the cover photo is from the documentary about her, walking along the shore at Cannon Beach, which is one of my favorite places in the world. The voiceover for that segment is her reciting a bit from Always Coming Home that made me ugly cry - it wasn't that long after she'd died.)
Consuela - Oct 06, 2020 7:42:40 pm PDT #26151 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
YA novelist, Jacqueline Woodson, also won a MacArthur.
And Tressie McMillan Cottom, who you have certainly seen around the internets. It's a great selection of people.
Consuela - Oct 06, 2020 7:43:25 pm PDT #26152 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My new Le Guin book arrived today, the LoA edition of Annals of the Western Shore,
I really love Annals of the Western Shore, might be worth rereading them soon. Recently I've been rereading a bunch of Rosemary Sutcliff.
Toddson - Oct 07, 2020 6:06:24 am PDT #26153 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Comfort reading? I can go along with that. I'm having problems reading anything new.