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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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Callaluna - Aug 10, 2007 5:55:37 am PDT #3664 of 28200

Let's see...

Liked:
The Glass Castle (Walls)
Midwives (Bohjalian)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards)
In Her Shoes (Weiner)
The Time Travellers Wife (Niffenegger)

Hated:
The Mermaid Chair (Kidd)

Mixed Reviews:
Atonement (McEwan) (I think I was the only one who liked it)
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral (Radish)
Inca Gold (Cussler)
Tales From the Bed (Estess)

Of course, we rarely all agree, but we do a rating system so we have an "overall consensus." I should also point out that this is more of a Social Club that happens to read. Only Emily and I really care about discussing the books, and we often end up discussing them amongst ourselves via email and whatnot, because our meetings tend to be 90% gab fest and feasting and 10% actual book discussion. It's just for fun, its a great group.

JZ - Aug 10, 2007 6:30:52 am PDT #3665 of 28200
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Calla, I just pinged my mom, who helps manage a couple of book clubs through her bookstore. I'll report back as soon as she does.

ChiKat - Aug 10, 2007 8:06:29 am PDT #3666 of 28200
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Life of Pi is boring my eyes out of their sockets!

Me, too!!! I read that this summer. Well, I actually started it the last week of April, but it took me until mid-July to finish it. I kept reading it in starts and stops because it just couldn't hold my interest.

Callaluna - Aug 10, 2007 8:30:14 am PDT #3667 of 28200

Thanks JZ!

I liked Life of Pi.

Man, I don't fit in around here, huh? ;)

ChiKat - Aug 10, 2007 8:31:09 am PDT #3668 of 28200
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Man, I don't fit in around here, huh? ;)

Piffle. We've missed you around here.

Polter-Cow - Aug 10, 2007 9:43:37 am PDT #3669 of 28200
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I am about a quarter of the way through The Golden Compass. I'm really liking it! I need to put a hold on The Amber Spyglass so the library has it ready when I finish this.

Jesse - Aug 10, 2007 9:56:02 am PDT #3670 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I liked Life of Pi a LOT (except the very end, which pissed me off), and I think I'm generally pretty unwilling to read boring.

Strega - Aug 10, 2007 10:01:50 am PDT #3671 of 28200

P-C, you'll want The Subtle Knife before Amber Spyglass.

Polter-Cow - Aug 10, 2007 10:03:16 am PDT #3672 of 28200
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

P-C, you'll want The Subtle Knife before Amber Spyglass.

Er. Yeah, that's totally what I meant! (Thanks for setting me straight, though; I totally would have gotten the wrong book!)

buffysmglover - Aug 10, 2007 10:28:26 am PDT #3673 of 28200
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog. Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!

I kept reading it in starts and stops because it just couldn't hold my interest.

Thats my problem too, but I started it with only a few weeks before i have to have it done, and now Im down to 3 more days to finish it. 200 pages of boring, then not, then boring in 3 days!

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