Does someone want to settle an argument for me? What colour is Mrs Coulter's hair in His Dark Materials? We don't have the book handy at the minute.
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
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."
Jars - Nov 03, 2007 10:03:46 am PDT #4263 of 28255
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2007 10:26:04 am PDT #4264 of 28255
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dark.
Jars - Nov 03, 2007 1:29:08 pm PDT #4265 of 28255
Thanks P-C!
Two of us thought blonde, for some reason...
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2007 1:30:56 pm PDT #4266 of 28255
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That reason would be the movie trailers. Heh.
Jars - Nov 03, 2007 1:56:10 pm PDT #4267 of 28255
It's a definite possibility, but I think it might've been the monkey. And it's golden hair. Because it came up when we were reading a review talking about how fans are annoyed that Mrs. Coulter had blonde hair in the movie, and we were all "but she does have blonde hair..."
Kate P. - Nov 03, 2007 4:02:26 pm PDT #4268 of 28255
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I was about to answer "blonde" as well, and I *just* re-read the books. Must be the monkey.
erin_obscure - Nov 04, 2007 12:26:43 pm PST #4269 of 28255
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Yah, monkey was golden but Coulter was dark and sleek.
very first mention of her in Golden Compass, p. 37: "..a beautiful young lady whose dark hair falls, shining delicately, under the shadow of her fur-lined hood,...." then on p. 58: "She was beautiful and young. Her sleek black hair framed her cheeks, and her daemon was a golden monkey."
But if Pullman is so keen on Kidman, then i have no argument with the blonde :)
Susan W. - Nov 06, 2007 6:44:00 am PST #4270 of 28255
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've grumbled off and on on the board about how the Seattle library system isn't putting enough, you know, books in its fancy new buildings. Looks like I'm not alone in my annoyance: [link]
ETA graph showing most popular books according to numbers of holds at SPL for the most recent week: [link]
Hayden - Nov 06, 2007 5:48:42 pm PST #4271 of 28255
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
From the dept of things that are awesome, Cormac McCarthy chats with the Coen Brothers: [link]
Susan W. - Nov 11, 2007 6:31:40 pm PST #4272 of 28255
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just finished From Where the Sun Now Stands, by Will Henry, a novel about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce seen through the eyes of a young warrior from Joseph's family. It's at once tragedy and coming-of-age story, and I so badly wished I could rewrite history and give them a different ending.
It's an older book, published in 1959, and is currently out of print, but it's been reissued recently enough to be available for cheap at Amazon and in the collections of many libraries.
I don't normally read Westerns, but I'm glad I made an exception in this case. An excellent and moving book.