I am 99.99% certain I have read it. (First, because it sounds familiar; second, because in my early teens, I loved Sheila Walsh. I'm not sure why, now.)
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
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."
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2008 10:35:48 am PDT #5410 of 28344
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Kathy A - Mar 27, 2008 10:42:21 am PDT #5411 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm thinking about pulling out some of my old time-travel romances for a reread. I love both the well-known titles, such as Devereaux's A Knight in Shining Armor, as well as the unknowns, such as Nancy Block's Once Upon a Pirate (I think that's the only book she ever had published, which is too bad, because it's excellent), Amy Fetzer's My Timeswept Heart and Timeswept Rogue, and Maggie Shayne's Miranda's Viking (frozen Viking found in the tundra!).
Laga - Mar 27, 2008 4:16:57 pm PDT #5412 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've been goading my Mom to just pick up Time Traveler's Wife and start reading and give it back to me if she doesn't like it because I'm ready for my third read-through. I just got this from her via email:
have met Clare and Henry..........they've got me
Polter-Cow - Mar 27, 2008 4:22:42 pm PDT #5413 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aw.
Tom Scola - Mar 31, 2008 2:50:55 pm PDT #5414 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
An e-mail containing the most astounding news just surfaced in my inbox, still dripping wet from the great oceanic Interweb. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., you know who he is, has a new novel out this September. It's called Anathem. Below, lovingly hand-transcribed, is the catalog copy:
Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians—sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides that only these cloistered scholars have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his cohorts are summoned forth without warning into the Unknown.
beth b - Mar 31, 2008 2:53:12 pm PDT #5415 of 28344
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DH is going to be so happy
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 2:53:18 pm PDT #5416 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh! I hope I'll be able to lift this one with one hand!
Volans - Mar 31, 2008 3:27:02 pm PDT #5417 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Cool! And what Jessica said.
Hayden - Mar 31, 2008 4:43:22 pm PDT #5418 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
One can dream.
(but I liked The Baroque Cycle quite a lot.)
Miracleman - Apr 01, 2008 4:41:27 am PDT #5419 of 28344
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Huh. Coincidentally, I'm re-reading Cryptonomicon for the, like, seventy billionth time.
Then I'm moving on to Quicksilver, during which reading I will likely purchase the rest of the Baroque Cycle 'cause I don't have it and haven't read it. Which makes me unhappy.
So. Rock on, Neal!