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!
Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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."
Jesse - Nov 28, 2020 3:52:57 pm PST #26237 of 28175
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
megan walker - Nov 28, 2020 4:22:42 pm PST #26238 of 28175
"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 28175
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 28175
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 28175
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 28175
"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 28175
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?).
megan walker - Nov 30, 2020 10:15:37 am PST #26244 of 28175
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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")
That is a good line.
For my challenge this year it was slim pickings as I didn't read as much as I usually do or want to. And not a lot of first lines stood out. A few that did were in even more obscure books than some of those I selected and I do try to pick stuff people might have read or at least heard of. You can find the answers here. I like the Shirley Jackson one. Pretty good for a first novel.
-t - Nov 30, 2020 1:48:16 pm PST #26245 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Mmm, murderbot
meara - Nov 30, 2020 4:22:22 pm PST #26246 of 28175
I’m very much looking forward to trawling the Yuletide stories this year to give me something to do for solo Christmas