You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.

Spike ,'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."


sumi - Jun 01, 2006 7:40:40 pm PDT #547 of 28061
Art Crawl!!!

No, but it does sound interesting.


sumi - Jun 01, 2006 7:48:23 pm PDT #548 of 28061
Art Crawl!!!

I googled and one of the books that came up was The Mind at Night by Andrea Rock from 2005. Is that too recent?


Connie Neil - Jun 02, 2006 9:12:12 pm PDT #549 of 28061
brillig

Sadly, yes, too recent, but interesting.


Volans - Jun 02, 2006 10:00:58 pm PDT #550 of 28061
move out and draw fire

connie, someone else told me about that (that folks used to wake in the middle of the night)...I'll ask them where they read it.


brenda m - Jun 03, 2006 3:17:22 am PDT #551 of 28061
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

I feel like we discussed it here at some point, but I can't remember how far back.


Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2006 7:51:15 am PDT #552 of 28061
brillig

I must learn to trust the Buffistas for all my obscure knowledge needs.


Katerina Bee - Jun 03, 2006 9:18:34 am PDT #553 of 28061
Herding cats for fun

hey, woke up with wings!

Damnit. NOW how do I get dressed with these things hanging offa my back?

The concept of wingfic makes me laugh and laugh without even having to read any of it.

Wrod. Heh heh heh heh. Visualizing reams of Shaun Cassidy-Leif Garrett fic that would have come from my era. Egads.

Want to read Matt’s version of wingfic, though. The neocons should experience some of our crime-fighting righteousness.


Volans - Jun 03, 2006 10:40:01 am PDT #554 of 28061
move out and draw fire

I must learn to trust the Buffistas for all my obscure knowledge needs.

I may be letting you down - the person I heard it from read it in the IHT. So I'm going to search their archives in case the article mentioned the book, but I feel the lead getting cold.


Connie Neil - Jun 03, 2006 11:19:26 am PDT #555 of 28061
brillig

That's all right, Raq, I'm just glad I didn't create the whole concept out of my imagination.


Amy - Jun 07, 2006 6:35:11 am PDT #556 of 28061
Because books.

I'm trying to come up with authors who wrote in many genres, or for both children and adults, all under the same name. Joan Aiken is an example -- she wrote The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and a million other children's books, but also wrote Jane Austen "sequels" (before it was in vogue, too) and other adult books, all under the one name.

Any others anyone can think of? I need examples for a column I have to write, and naturally I came up with my hypothesis before I had proof.