I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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."


-t - Apr 13, 2022 6:50:52 pm PDT #27363 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

In case anyone could use this information, Adjoah Andoh reading Pride and Prejudice is pretty dang great. It’s not quite MOAR LADY DANBURY but it’s very nice indeed


Calli - May 03, 2022 1:38:38 pm PDT #27364 of 27917
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Starting today you can get Dracula sent to you as it happens. (It's an epistolary novel, with dates, and it starts on May 3.) [link]


-t - May 03, 2022 2:05:12 pm PDT #27365 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ooh, fun!


Steph L. - May 03, 2022 2:16:49 pm PDT #27366 of 27917
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

This is just Dracula's attempt to convince people to invite him in to their email boxes. Y'all know what happens next.


-t - May 03, 2022 3:07:32 pm PDT #27367 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

But he'll have to count all my unread emails, so I should be safe


Steph L. - May 03, 2022 5:43:42 pm PDT #27368 of 27917
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

But he'll have to count all my unread emails, so I should be safe

Bahahahahahaha!


-t - May 04, 2022 3:44:08 pm PDT #27369 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

it was the fourth of May..."It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Delightful


Beverly - May 06, 2022 2:04:59 am PDT #27370 of 27917
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

And suddenly, Marge Piercy's poems are relevant again. A Right to Life First published in 1980. I cut my feminist teeth on Piercy, among others, of course. But she was the voice in my head and my heart. I am sorry for the fresh relevance of her words.


Toddson - May 06, 2022 4:56:54 am PDT #27371 of 27917
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

One of my co-workers is reading The Handmaid's Tale and I mentioned that someone had commented it was not meant to be an instruction book.


Calli - May 06, 2022 7:42:49 am PDT #27372 of 27917
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Fans of The Goblin Emperor and Witness for the Dead might be interested in this short story, set in the same universe: [link]