Jilli, have you seen the movie The Belles of St. Trinians?
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
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."
DavidS - May 27, 2008 3:10:05 pm PDT #5929 of 28359
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - May 27, 2008 3:53:19 pm PDT #5930 of 28359
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I always have to read a series in order. It bugs me on so many deep, completely neurotic levels if I don't.
Oh, yes! I cannot, cannot do it. To the point where I would even nudge students away from starting series in the middle, even if it were a series that would take not harm from it. I"d be all "Oh, you really can't...Let me order the first one for you."
Amy - May 27, 2008 3:55:04 pm PDT #5931 of 28359
Because books.
My sister!
brenda m - May 27, 2008 4:28:12 pm PDT #5932 of 28359
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
It drives me batshit when you go into a bookstore and they have a book prominently on display that's in a series but they don't have the first book in stock. Feh.
Toddson - May 28, 2008 3:46:20 am PDT #5933 of 28359
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
or, what's equally annoying, is when they have the first and third, but not the second. That disturbs the completist in me.
In other news, Mrs. Giggles reviews a "book" which uses "seratonin" in an "erotic" setting.
Atropa - May 28, 2008 8:17:04 am PDT #5934 of 28359
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, have you seen the movie The Belles of St. Trinians?
I haven't. I need to get my mitts on a copy.
Toddson - May 28, 2008 8:38:46 am PDT #5935 of 28359
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh Jilli! I remember the St. Trinian's movies from when I was young ... they were such fun! (were you speaking literally of mitts? little lace ones?)
Atropa - May 28, 2008 8:49:34 am PDT #5936 of 28359
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(were you speaking literally of mitts? little lace ones?)
Yes. I just took them off to eat my bagel, but I have a pair of little lace mitts with me. Go on, look surprised.
Laga - May 28, 2008 2:55:31 pm PDT #5937 of 28359
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm deeper into Poisonwood Bible now. The mom writing from the future perspective just exposed that one of her kids is going to die. I kinda hate that technique. It feels like it's artificially creating a sense of dread and I think there are so many ways to do that other than coming right out and saying it. Now I know someone's days are numbered and I'll have that on my mind until I find out who it is.
Other than that I'm really enjoying the book. I've gotten over my confusion of the different narrators (helped greatly by a previous reader who left her character notes in the book- thanks prior reader!) and I'm starting to appreciate how each character gives a different insight into the settings and stories.
Volans - May 28, 2008 3:14:36 pm PDT #5938 of 28359
move out and draw fire
Laga, a friend and I were just discussing that particular technique. He'd just finished The Time-Traveller's Wife and drew the parallel to Poisonwood.
I had to admit that that reveal made me spend the pages between it and the payoff rooting for my choice.
Of course, it helped that I didn't like anyone in Poisonwood.