November 18: Margaret Atwood’s Birthday! I hope she will write some more books.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
Katerina Bee - Nov 18, 2020 8:39:34 am PST #26233 of 28216
Herding cats for fun
sj - Nov 18, 2020 8:51:07 am PST #26234 of 28216
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
She has a new poetry book out.
megan walker - Nov 26, 2020 10:19:37 am PST #26235 of 28216
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Happy Thanksgiving Literistas!
Unfortunately I am not chez Pix and ND this year, but I'm happy to say my other Thanksgiving tradition lives on. That's right, it's time for my annual First Lines book challenge!
I have every faith that you can guess at least one of these.
sj - Nov 27, 2020 6:26:49 am PST #26236 of 28216
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I couldn't sleep last night, so I ended up reading a large chunk of Mexican Gothic, and omg it is so good! Great gothic elements, and the witty conversations are very Austenesque. I can't wait to read more of it tonight.
Jesse - Nov 28, 2020 3:52:57 pm PST #26237 of 28216
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For years, my family has mostly been exchanging books at Christmas, in some variations. Well, earlier this fall, I ordered a bunch of random books from my local independents, and then today we decided to draw names! So only a few of these books are now appropriate gifts (one for the person whose name I drew, a couple for my mother). Oh well, the rest for me, I guess!
megan walker - Nov 28, 2020 4:22:42 pm PST #26238 of 28216
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hints have been written for the as-yet-unguessed items in my annual First Lines book challenge. And I'll say here that one of the authors is definitely a Buffista fave, though not for what I read this year.
Consuela - Nov 29, 2020 8:54:43 am PST #26239 of 28216
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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Toddson - Nov 30, 2020 7:25:48 am PST #26240 of 28216
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Years ago, I was talking with a co-worker and the subject of what we were reading came up. When I asked him what he was reading, he told me it was old and kind of obscure and I'd probably never heard of it. I pushed and he finally said that he was reading Scaramouche ... and I quoted the opening line to him (which surprised him no end). (It IS one of the great opening lines: "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad")
Calli - Nov 30, 2020 7:57:49 am PST #26241 of 28216
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I finished the fourth novella in the Murderbot series yesterday and dove right into book five. Murderbot is such a delight! I love spending time in their PoV.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2020 9:26:09 am PST #26242 of 28216
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scaramouche! Great movie too with Stewart Granger, with a famous duel across the back of theater seats.