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Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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hippocampus - Jun 12, 2007 3:12:07 am PDT #2838 of 28176

not your mom's socks.

Augh. I am teh idiot. Housekeeping sits on the shelf next to Evidence of things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins. I got Marilynne Robinson confused in there and we have a literary conundrum. My brain was elsewhere yesterday. Still a very good book! [link]

Consuela - I hear you!

Steph L. - Jun 12, 2007 7:16:16 am PDT #2839 of 28176

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Library funnies: [link]

::snerk::

Fred Pete - Jun 12, 2007 7:40:21 am PDT #2840 of 28176

Ann, that's a ferret.

Many here will no doubt particularly enjoy this installment of the series Teppy just linked to.

Aims - Jun 14, 2007 8:34:13 am PDT #2841 of 28176

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Rowling's book tour. [link]

On Oct. 15, she will read at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles,

GODS DAMN IT.

Kathy A - Jun 14, 2007 8:37:37 am PDT #2842 of 28176

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

You wouldn't have been able to get in, anyway:

Don't bother rushing for tickets. For three of the readings, Scholastic will pick schools to send children. For the fourth reading, at Carnegie Hall, 1,000 fans will be chosen from a Scholastic sweepstakes, with each winner receiving two passes.

Aims - Jun 14, 2007 8:39:23 am PDT #2843 of 28176

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I could get in. I have a Catholic school girl outfit.

OR OR OR

I have a child! In a school! With Grandma as her teacher.

I could totally get in.

Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2007 5:15:38 am PDT #2844 of 28176

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ahahahahaha!!!!

If Harry Potter ended like The Sopranos (so yes, it spoils the Sopranos): [link]

Aims - Jun 15, 2007 5:24:45 am PDT #2845 of 28176

Shit's all sorts of different now.

An aside: I wish people would stop looking for a meaning behind the final episode of The Sopranos. I know most people like a nice tidy ending, but I like it when I get to choose the ending.

Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2007 5:29:34 am PDT #2846 of 28176

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am rereading Agatha Christie mysteries on the bus-- I can do about 1 and 1/2 books per day. And while they are enjoyable, I keep being shocked by the racism and classism in them. I can't tell if Agatha Christie is brilliantly skewering the attitudes of the British at the time, or is so steeped in that culture that she doesn't even notice.

Also, I am finding a couple of the mystery "surprises" seem a little bit like cheating. That is, she writes thoughts from the point of view of the murder and doesn't include the murderous thoughts. I a little disappointed as they were favorites growing up.

They are, however, perfect bus books-- small, paperback, quick and absorbing. I tried to read a biography of Elizabeth I and two Jodi Picoult books on the bus, and I couldn't concentrate.

Gris - Jun 15, 2007 6:07:55 am PDT #2847 of 28176

Hey. New board.

I would so dig that HP ending.

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