Neil Gaiman's American Gods is available to read free online here for the next month.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'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."
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."
Hayden - Feb 29, 2008 6:03:42 am PST #5153 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My colleague's thought for the day:
The crocuses and the larch turning green every year a week before the others and the pastures red with uneaten sheep's placentas and the long summer days and the new-mown hay and the wood-pigeon in the morning and the cuckoo in the afternoon and the corncrake in the evening and the wasps in the jam and the smell of the gorse and the look of the gorse and the apples falling and the children walking in the dead leaves and the larch turning brown a week before the others and the chestnuts falling and the howling winds and the sea breaking over the pier and the first fires and the hooves on the road and the consumptive postman whistling The Roses Are Blooming in Picardy and the standard oil-lamp and of course the snow and to be sure the sleet and bless your heart the slush and every fourth year the February debacle and the endless April showers and the crocuses and then the whole bloody business starting over again. - Beckett
sumi - Feb 29, 2008 8:56:46 am PST #5154 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Hey! There's going to be a new Vicky Bliss book!
How long has it been since the last one? Or am I just hopelessly behind with non-Egyptian Elizabeth Peters mysteries? I am probably hopelessly behind with the Egyptian E. Peters mysteries as I am not entirely sure when the last time I read one was.
Connie Neil - Feb 29, 2008 9:07:55 am PST #5155 of 28344
brillig
Yay! In the last book, John was contemplating actually turning himself in to the police so he could stop hiding and have some sort of life with Vicky. Perhaps this book will take place after that. Off to look for spoilers! (I'm like that)
edit: hmm . . . back to Egypt. Is Peters done with the Emerson-Peabody's? I haven't been that interested in the post Ramses-Nefret-get-together books. Peters has gotten too enamored of Sethos.
Volans - Feb 29, 2008 9:16:40 am PST #5156 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Excellent quote, Corwood - thank you for sharing!
The Adjective Noun
I'm going to have to write a book just to name it this.
sumi - Feb 29, 2008 9:20:31 am PST #5157 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
I can't recall the last of the Peabody books that I read. . . I think it was set during WWI - does that sound about right?
Connie Neil - Feb 29, 2008 9:40:30 am PST #5158 of 28344
brillig
I think it was set during WWI - does that sound about right?
WWI is the era when Rameses and Nefret get their act together, and there are a few post-war books that cover their kids, some political intrigue, and I think the last one involves Tutankhamon's tomb.
sumi - Feb 29, 2008 9:43:22 am PST #5159 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Ah. Apparently, I've missed a few.
Consuela - Feb 29, 2008 10:37:08 am PST #5160 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I pre-ordered Knut's book today! *o/* Although the bookstore owner was confused because her online ordering thing said it wasn't coming out until June and yet I know he has hard copies now...
beth b - Feb 29, 2008 2:28:42 pm PST #5161 of 28344
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
One sentence stories. These are the most popular stories/sentences- some will break your heart.