She has a new poetry book out.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
sj - Nov 18, 2020 8:51:07 am PST #26234 of 28626
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
megan walker - Nov 26, 2020 10:19:37 am PST #26235 of 28626
"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 28626
"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 28626
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 28626
"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 28626
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 28626
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 28626
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 28626
"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.
Toddson - Nov 30, 2020 10:10:45 am PST #26243 of 28626
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, indeed. And if I remember correctly, it opened with the line from the book (seriously - when a book hands you a great line, why not use it?).