Hil, I had that same reaction to that line in The Golden Compass. I really loved Pullman's metaphors and analogies.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
Polter-Cow - Dec 31, 2007 8:56:19 pm PST #4536 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Jan 02, 2008 7:28:18 am PST #4537 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Libba Bray's third Spence Academy book is out now — The Sweet Far Thing — and it's on its way to my hot little hands. I should have it in time to do nothing but read all weekend. It's over 800 pages — I guess she wanted to wrap up the story without writing a fourth book.
Amy - Jan 02, 2008 7:38:17 am PST #4538 of 28342
Because books.
::cries::
I went to a B&N on the 26th, and they were ALREADY GONE.
Kathy A - Jan 02, 2008 11:30:45 am PST #4539 of 28342
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Huffington Post has a fun article by an author about the day last week she decided to hit the local bookstores and sign stock copies of her book.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2008 11:40:41 am PST #4540 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That was charming.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2008 8:01:55 pm PST #4541 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Amy knows Libba Bray personally.
Check it out! She's got a glass eye from a tragic teenage mishap, and yet is still totally pretty. Also her musical taste is totally my age really cool.
Susan W. - Jan 02, 2008 8:29:35 pm PST #4542 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Has anyone here read Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer? It's YA, vampires, set in Forks, WA (where they really get all the rain my Bama relatives think we get in Seattle). I'm about 1/3 in and enjoying it so far.
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2008 8:34:33 pm PST #4543 of 28342
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
set in Forks, WA (where they really get all the rain my Bama relatives think we get in Seattle).
I think we may qualify in Olympia. While we don't get the most inches of rain, we get more hours of rain than any place in Washington State - less sun, perfect for vampires.
Susan W. - Jan 02, 2008 8:42:41 pm PST #4544 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My latest ambition for if I ever become an author successful enough to quit my day job is to move to Sequim--cool weather and mountains and oceans and everything there is to love about this region with only 16 inches of rain.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2008 9:05:26 pm PST #4545 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did y'all know that Emma Bull and Will Shetterly made their own trailer for a War of the Oaks movie? (Emma is the Unseelie Queen.) I like the Eddi.
Very RenFaire, but fun.