Ooh, that looks like fun!
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
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 - Aug 13, 2007 8:41:10 am PDT #3717 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
Cashmere - Aug 13, 2007 8:42:15 am PDT #3718 of 28200
Now tagless for your comfort.
It does look like fun! Worth checking out, Aimee, thanks.
Polgara - Aug 13, 2007 8:49:09 am PDT #3719 of 28200
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Wait, it's a Third? Damn. I bought it 'cause it looked fun, but I didn't realize it was a mid-series book. Now I can't read it until I get the first two. Phooey.
Toddson - Aug 13, 2007 9:08:22 am PDT #3720 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Callaluna, if you're getting desperate and MUST have something about 20th century Quakerism, possibly a biography of Richard Nixon?
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what? he was a Quaker ... kind of
Ginger - Aug 13, 2007 9:20:56 am PDT #3721 of 28200
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If you want to go for nonfiction, there's Among Friends, M.F.K. Fisher's memoir about growing up as a non-Quaker in Quaker Whittier, Calif. It can be seen as somewhat unflattering to Quakers, although her main point is what it's like to live outside of a closed society.
Volans - Aug 13, 2007 10:35:16 am PDT #3722 of 28200
move out and draw fire
(thinks about making a joke about the Whittier Quake of 1987)
I'm reading World War Z and am very impressed. Like the best zombie movies, it's a socio-political commentary about the world now, rather than a slasher shriekfest. Some of the stories get repetitive, but it is rather brilliant.
sumi - Aug 13, 2007 10:40:17 am PDT #3723 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, Moby Dick has Quakers.
beekaytee - Aug 13, 2007 12:17:18 pm PDT #3724 of 28200
Compassionately intolerant
(thinks about making a joke about the Whittier Quake of 1987)
Oh god. The very reason I now live on the right coast. shudderpun intended
Laga - Aug 13, 2007 3:23:43 pm PDT #3725 of 28200
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I finally got my copy of Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? Man, I knew this book was going to be good but I wasn't prepared for how good. I'm only on page fifteen and I've already laughed and cried and laughed again. I hope I can save some for Wednesday's plane ride.
Gris - Aug 13, 2007 4:03:41 pm PDT #3726 of 28200
Hey. New board.
Thanks for the rec, Aimee. Just picked up the first two books in that Soccer mom series, along with Under the Rose by Diana Peterfreund (the second book in a series about a girl in an Ivy League secret society - the first one was addictive as all get out) and Can you Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella. It was a very girly day, but I'm all right with that.
I'm also working my way through the Galactic Milieu Trilogy by Julian May for at least the tenth time. Has anybody else read these books? I think they are absolutely amazing.