Nope-- it was a Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. [link]
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
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."
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 4:47:59 pm PDT #2635 of 28176
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 5:02:23 pm PDT #2636 of 28176
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cool. I didn't think that was it, but I couldn't remember. Now I have another to read.
When I'm up to another shipwreck, anyway. This one was excellent, really gripping, but harrowing.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2007 8:11:41 pm PDT #2637 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ship of Gold is more about the hunt for the shipwreck one hundred years later than it is about the wreck itself. Well, it's about that, but the part I liked the best was about finding it, and the battle over the salvage rights.
Yes, I studied the Abandoned Shipwreck Act in law school. t /geek
... which, consider what I do for a living, is pretty damned ironic. Or prophetic, or something. Something poetic.
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 8:21:32 pm PDT #2638 of 28176
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What she said, though I did enjoy the part leading up to the wreck, too, especially the SF history, and I loved the captain.
sumi - Apr 26, 2007 10:33:36 am PDT #2639 of 28176
Art Crawl!!!
I wanted the deluxe edition of Children of Hurin because of the Alan Lee illustrations but I realized that I couldn't afford it and the regular edition had the classic Tolkien map in it after all - so I got the regular edition.
Guess what? The regular edition is also illustrated by Alan Lee.
hippocampus - Apr 27, 2007 9:52:37 am PDT #2640 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
Sparky suggested I visit over here to ask if anyone's read Vellum or Ink ? Still new to the multithread.
eta: italics
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2007 6:49:42 pm PDT #2641 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Finished Barrayar today.
Damn, that was good. Tense, though -- I was holding my breath for, like, the last 1/4 of the book. Good stuff.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 7:27:08 pm PDT #2642 of 28176
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I finished a book too! Way too exciting, considering it's not exciting. I just read so rarely these days.
Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. I have to admit, the shenanigans in Swordspoint sometimes went over my head, when they weren't primarily emotional. This one talks down to me more, and I can't say I don't appreciate it.
I think she did a good job of a clueless learning-her-way story without me feeling impatient or scornful. Katherine didn't know some things, and she was going to learn them, but I didn't dislike her or the author for it.
Didn't love the book, but I sure did enjoy it.
Ginger - Apr 30, 2007 4:36:18 am PDT #2643 of 28176
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Finished Barrayar today
Shopping!
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2007 5:10:35 am PDT #2644 of 28176
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Finished Barrayar today
Shopping!
Oh, YEAH. I forgot you had mentioned that!
Damn, I love Cordelia.