November 18: Margaret Atwood’s Birthday! I hope she will write some more books.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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 28212
Herding cats for fun
sj - Nov 18, 2020 8:51:07 am PST #26234 of 28212
"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 28212
"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 28212
"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 28212
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 28212
"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 28212
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 28212
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 28212
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 28212
"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.