Oh, I loved Understood Betsy! And I read Caddie Woodlawn (which I didn't love as much as the Little House books) and Strawberry Girl. God, I want to get out *all* my childhood books now.
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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."
Amy - Feb 23, 2008 8:16:27 am PST #5143 of 28344
Because books.
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2008 9:45:03 am PST #5144 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In non-Little House news (though now I want to re-read them, dang it!), I'm about a chapter away from the end of The Subtle Knife, and:
(1) I can see the whole Dust premise starting to unravel;
(2) Lee Scoresby! Noooooo!; and
(3) Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
And although I can see the Dust premise unraveling, I'm going to read The Amber Spyglass just so I can see how it all turns out.
brenda m - Feb 26, 2008 5:06:37 pm PST #5145 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Random House to stop using DRM on its audiobooks. [link]
But the interesting part is why:
Seems Random House, in a fit of unfettered wisdom, ran a DRM-free audiobook distribution program online and found that “none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions.” All the pirated versions they found were from DRM-editions that had been cracked, stripped of their protection, or ripped from CD. To quote Cory Doctorow, “DUH.”
Tom Scola - Feb 28, 2008 10:18:45 am PST #5146 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Political contributions by people who identify their occupation as "novelist": [link]
Susan W. - Feb 28, 2008 11:34:11 am PST #5147 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, I need to step away from that database before I end up putting in everyone I like from my LibraryThing list. If nothing else, there's always the possibility I won't like them after I see what they do with their money!
Polter-Cow - Feb 28, 2008 2:15:39 pm PST #5148 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I can see the whole Dust premise starting to unravel
I love what he does with Dust in the second book, though. Also, how great is Mary Malone? She's one of the good parts about the third book.
Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
Heh.
DavidS - Feb 28, 2008 2:16:27 pm PST #5149 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
Aren't all the titles from Milton's Paradise Lost?
amych - Feb 28, 2008 2:35:14 pm PST #5150 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Aren't all the titles from Milton's Paradise Lost?
His Dark Materials and The Golden Compass are* (sort of -- it's compasses in Milton, but close enough). OTOH, no "subtle", no "knife", no "spyglass" (but one "optick glass" -- I think I want one), and a few mentions of amber that have nothing to with with spyglasses or any other glasses.
God I love Project Gutenberg.
* HDM is the only money quote, Milton-wise. The golden compasses in the text are just... compasses. Not a particularly quotable moment
Nutty - Feb 28, 2008 5:04:41 pm PST #5151 of 28344
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Also, if you'll recall, it wasn't even titled The Golden Compass at first. In Britain, it was released as Northern Lights, and it was only after its retitling in the US (and subsequent, I think, decision on Pullman's part to name all the books The Adjective Noun ) that the existing title stuck.
(And right up through the third book being published, I don't know anybody who called it His Dark Materials as a trilogy; I think that happened only after everything was done, and still isn't general parlance except among the fannish.)
sj - Feb 29, 2008 3:21:08 am PST #5152 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Neil Gaiman's American Gods is available to read free online here for the next month.