And Larry McMurtry died as well.
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.
'Shindig'
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."
DavidS - Mar 26, 2021 2:14:31 pm PDT #26582 of 27932
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Volans - Mar 26, 2021 5:05:08 pm PDT #26583 of 27932
move out and draw fire
Did you guys see this? It's from like 6 months back but I just saw it. Turkish garbage collectors build a library for abandoned books
Beverly - Mar 26, 2021 7:57:19 pm PDT #26584 of 27932
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I did see the Turkish rescue library, and it gave me a warm glow.
Oh lawd, I did read some of that Morrison woman's books--see, her covers were done by Thomas Canty, and well you just can't throw Canty covers up on the shelf and not expect me to bite. I think I ran out of imaginative steam about midway book two, though. Those were not among the MMPBs that made the trek from NC.
-t - Mar 31, 2021 4:39:52 pm PDT #26585 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
...I seem to have caught up on my Allingham and now find myself reading Campion fic. I don't know why it never occurred to me that murder mystery fic might be a thing, but it didn't, and I am kind of bewildered to find myself here. I am considering reading the supposedly canonical fic written by her husband after her death, and possibly even the stuff by some other guy, but $8 a book is making that less attractive...
Beverly - Mar 31, 2021 4:53:10 pm PDT #26586 of 27932
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Any PD James/Dalgleish fans about? I loved the PBS series with Ray Marsden--actually that's what led me to the books. Bit later than Campion, etc., 80s? I think? Possibly 90s? I do like James' writing.
-t - Mar 31, 2021 5:12:20 pm PDT #26587 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I liked Cordelia Gray a lot but have an irrational dislike of Adam Dalgliesh. And Children of Men made me very angry and I have held that against James.
Beverly - Apr 01, 2021 7:40:52 pm PDT #26588 of 27932
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh yes, thumbs down on Children of Men.
Toddson - Apr 02, 2021 1:34:30 pm PDT #26589 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This is an older book, but I waited for it to be on sale at a reduced price and so I finished it recently. It took a while for me to get into it, but once I did it moved along. Basic story (set in the early 1800s) - a highly skilled chef, employed by a titled man who's the head of a trading company (kind of like the British East India Company) has a dinner party interrupted by pirates, accidentally gets himself into the middle of this, sees his employer killed, then is hauled off by the pirates. Their leader is a woman and she tells him that he will have to make her one delicious meal on Sunday or he'll be killed. It follows the adventures of the pirates, the chef having to come up with something wonderful with paltry food/seasonings and a cooking place that is woefully inadequate.
-t - Apr 02, 2021 1:46:58 pm PDT #26590 of 27932
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kidnapped by pirates is good
Seriously, that is an intriguing description
Toddson - Apr 02, 2021 1:55:01 pm PDT #26591 of 27932
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And the meals he cooks ... he's very ingenuous and makes some meals that sound delicious out of the least promising things.