Salon gathered bunches of people to speculate on the new HP.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
sumi - Jul 06, 2007 11:31:23 am PDT #3082 of 28195
Art Crawl!!!
beth b - Jul 06, 2007 11:45:06 am PDT #3083 of 28195
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Finished HP5 - and honestly, after rereading - it might win for best - JKR really captured that first time when you realizes that the world is truely fucked up. I have a friend who is really suffering because his daughter has changed from a a fairly frivolous social butterfly to someone who sees all the problems in the world. He is proud of her, but she has a really hard time seeing the joy in life right now. and that is where Harry is in book 5. I am really glad I reread it. (I also found that once I got past the first hundred or so pages, it was very easy to keep going). The first is always going to have a place in my heart. It introduced me to a world that I fell head over heels for.
Volans - Jul 06, 2007 11:55:41 am PDT #3084 of 28195
move out and draw fire
Sox, I started in on LibraryThing (ZoneWombat is me), but I have about 5 billion more books to input and I didn't bring my CueCat.
I'm actually thinking about starting up a separate LT account for the boxes of books I need/want to get rid of.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2007 10:02:47 am PDT #3085 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I made an LJ post about The Good Soldier and Perdido Street Station.
hippocampus - Jul 07, 2007 10:09:16 am PDT #3086 of 28195
not your mom's socks.
I'm actually thinking about starting up a separate LT account for the boxes of books I need/want to get rid of.
That sounds cool - we could set up a buffista's book swap.
PC - China Miéville has a short story about feral alleys and streets that I loved - both for the concept and for the writing. Haven't read Perdido Street yet. Looks like that's soon on the list...
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2007 10:32:56 am PDT #3087 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's incredibly inventive. It's like, usually when you read these things, they're just variations on tropes, which is perfectly fine and neat. But it's like he ignores all existing tropes and does his own thing.
brenda m - Jul 07, 2007 11:23:12 am PDT #3088 of 28195
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Question for y'all. I picked up Ellen Kushner's Privilege of the Sword today at B&N (along with this!) and I can't wait to dive in. But is there something that comes in between this book and Swordspoint? The Fall of the Kings comes after this one, right?
JoeCrow - Jul 08, 2007 8:15:49 pm PDT #3089 of 28195
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
I think there might be a short story set a bit between Swordspoint and PotS, but I can't remember where it is. Fall is after PotS, yeah.
Cashmere - Jul 10, 2007 5:48:03 pm PDT #3090 of 28195
Now tagless for your comfort.
I had a bit of synchronicity with a local author today. A year back, a member of a mom's group loaned me the book, The Prodigal Troll, a decent fantasy saga. I quite enjoyed it. I find him commenting in the LJ of one of DH's coworkers. So I told him I liked his book and where I got it.
His reply:
Thanks. I want to be the number 1 author in mom's groups everywhere! (Alas, the next book is about witches fighting in the American Revolution, and I don't know how moms will feel about witches, whereas the middle part of Prodigal Troll was very much about being a good mom.)
Witches fighting in the American Revolution. I told him he just found a member of his target demographic.
Katerina Bee - Jul 11, 2007 3:16:31 pm PDT #3091 of 28195
Herding cats for fun
...AND passed it on to us lot, we're as demographic as all get out.
This seems like the right place to announce to my local book lovers that I have become a teenage girl's Reading Fairy. I started out by loaning her a copy of Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty because someone recommended it here once upon a time, way upstream. Maybe it was AmyLiz?
Now I've loaded her up with 10 YA novels including Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint and especially Clive Barker's Abarat, because I like the illustrations a lot.
Go me. I've enabled a literary addiction. Moooah-haw-ha.