Being an adult reader sucks. I miss my younger days when I could just spend the weekend devouring a book or two without worrying about all the stuff I should be doing instead. My to be read pile is getting ridiculous, both with fiction and with RPG sourcebooks.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Kalshane - Feb 05, 2022 4:31:15 pm PST #27283 of 28067
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Consuela - Feb 05, 2022 4:35:59 pm PST #27284 of 28067
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So many books.
Steph L. - Feb 05, 2022 5:15:42 pm PST #27285 of 28067
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
There are too many books, you guys.
I weeded out the bookshelves after Christmas because there was no room for the new books I got for Christmas (and got myself before Christmas). And the thing is, I ended up with 3 Trader Joe's bags full of books (well, like 2/3 full, because a full bag of books is fucking heavy), and there's no open space on my shelves. They're full. The only difference is that the shelves aren't double-stacked any more. For now.
amyparker - Feb 06, 2022 1:54:20 pm PST #27286 of 28067
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Teppy, same - the only reason I have space on my shelves is down to having lent multiple books to people (for example, Ken has all of my Murderbot); if they ever give them back, I'm screwed.
Toddson - Feb 07, 2022 6:29:46 am PST #27287 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've resorted to dropping books I know I'm not going to reread in my building's laundry room, which is kind of an ad hoc freecycle spot. Otherwise ... well, I could use another bookshelf.
Beverly - Feb 07, 2022 6:05:23 pm PST #27288 of 28067
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'd have to subdivide a room using bookshelves for the divider--I have no more wall space.
...of course I could always hang more wall art on the back of the bookshelves... Hmm.
Toddson - Feb 08, 2022 5:35:27 am PST #27289 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There used to be a used bookstore in the area called (appropriately) Chaos Unlimited. It was on the second and third stories of an old townhouse and had bookshelves used as room dividers. They had to put up a sign with an arrow saying "upstairs went thataway". And you frequently had to step over the cat who, of course, liked to lie in the middle of the doorway.
sj - Feb 09, 2022 11:56:06 am PST #27290 of 28067
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Is there a read/listen from the hall? Because I think the book I’m currently listening to qualifies.
-t - Feb 09, 2022 12:01:44 pm PST #27291 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh yes. I have been known physically hold the book/e-reader farther from my face and kind of squint while I read when that happens. I don't have a coping mechanism for audiobooks other than letting my mind wander and not rewinding.
Toddson - Feb 09, 2022 2:46:11 pm PST #27292 of 28067
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Once, when I was young, a story in a book scared me so much that I took the book and hid it under some things in the bottom of my closet.