My BiL has a new book out last month. It's Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun. (SB is the BiL.) It's about international weapons trade, specifically Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Steve and his co-author have an in store appearance at Politics and Prose in Georgetown (Washington, DC) on Thursday. Come on down if you're in the area!
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Bobbi - Jul 31, 2007 3:35:11 pm PDT #3549 of 28198
Dog is my co-pilot.
Laga - Jul 31, 2007 8:37:15 pm PDT #3550 of 28198
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
What's the source of "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"?
Hil R. - Jul 31, 2007 8:39:36 pm PDT #3551 of 28198
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hamlet.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2007 8:39:39 pm PDT #3552 of 28198
Always Anti-fascist!
Gonna guess "Macbeth" or "othello" Somebody smarter will probably get it before me.(smacks forehead) Of course, and I *know* Hamlet.(Not like I want to date Judith, but...) I'm just a hoople.
amych - Jul 31, 2007 8:40:37 pm PDT #3553 of 28198
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Macbeth
eta: d'oh
Laga - Jul 31, 2007 8:44:38 pm PDT #3554 of 28198
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ahh yes. They kinda skipped that part in Slings & Arrows.
-t - Jul 31, 2007 8:46:17 pm PDT #3555 of 28198
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" - Hamlet
DebetEsse - Aug 01, 2007 1:06:43 pm PDT #3556 of 28198
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Speaking of, I'm looking to begin assembling a Shakespeare library, but I don't know what edition to get. I'm looking for something with individual plays, rather than the Big Book O' Shakespeare approach. Some degree of annotation, mostly of the "here's what this word means" sort.
Does anyone have a favorite that they'd recommend?
DavidS - Aug 01, 2007 1:17:52 pm PDT #3557 of 28198
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love my Riverside for its essays and annotation, but it is one big Book O'Shakespeare.
sumi - Aug 01, 2007 1:20:35 pm PDT #3558 of 28198
Art Crawl!!!
Dover Thrift - if you're looking for easily portable and not at all spendy.