I just found out there are two kinds of ladybug--well really only one, the other wears a ladybug suit. It's not quite as bright a red, has an M mark on it's head, smells bad, and bites. Our lovely ladybug is a brilliant red, has fewer black spots and no M, no smell and no bite. So maybe when in doubt, look for the M, take a sniff and if it's smelly, shoo it away before it bites.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Beverly - Sep 16, 2023 1:13:45 am PDT #27728 of 28053
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
dcp - Sep 16, 2023 3:46:52 am PDT #27729 of 28053
I have grown older, but not up.
Ladybug vs. Asian Lady Beetle: [link]
(P.S. Despite the company name, not a known relative of mine.)
Toddson - Sep 18, 2023 5:40:58 am PDT #27730 of 28053
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And if you see what looks like an orange-ish "lady bug" it may be a baby carpet beetle, which can grow up to eat holes in your wool clothes.
Jessica - Oct 02, 2023 7:36:56 pm PDT #27731 of 28053
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
My almost-13 daughter wants to read things that are "scary and gay" so hit me up with your YA/middle grade lesbian horror recs.
DavidS - Oct 02, 2023 10:16:53 pm PDT #27732 of 28053
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My almost-13 daughter wants to read things that are "scary and gay" so hit me up with your YA/middle grade lesbian horror recs.
I wish she was local so I could point her at my friend Eleanor's Creepy Girl Book Club.
Actually, I can rec one book: Holy Black's Tithe. Which is a Fae intersecting with the real world type story but has some intense Gay and intense Scary.
sj - Oct 03, 2023 9:45:22 am PDT #27733 of 28053
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don’t know how scary she’ll find it, but she might enjoy Cinderella is Dead.
Dana - Oct 03, 2023 9:52:46 am PDT #27734 of 28053
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
sj - Oct 03, 2023 10:35:09 am PDT #27735 of 28053
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone read Tender is the Flesh? I’m reading it now, and it is quite possibly the most disturbing book I’ve ever read.
Kate P. - Oct 03, 2023 11:18:33 am PDT #27736 of 28053
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jess, she might like The Last Girls Standing, by Jennifer Dugan, or the graphic novel Squad, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.
-t - Oct 03, 2023 11:56:44 am PDT #27737 of 28053
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OH, good one. And that reminds me there's a new Alix Harrow book out - I don't know if it's scary or gay, I pre-ordered it and don't even remember the description