Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


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 - May 27, 2008 3:55:04 pm PDT #5931 of 28362
Because books.

My sister!


brenda m - May 27, 2008 4:28:12 pm PDT #5932 of 28362
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 28362
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 28362
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 28362
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 28362
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 28362
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 28362
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.


Pix - May 28, 2008 3:45:05 pm PDT #5939 of 28362
The status is NOT quo.

Crap, I'd better get back on reading Poisonwood! I won't be able to really start reading again until after school is out, alas.


Laga - May 28, 2008 4:49:30 pm PDT #5940 of 28362
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

that's interesting because I love Time Traveller's Wife so very much. The only thing I don't like about it is the choices one character makes but I still respect those choices. I didn't think Niffenegger hit me over the head with it as hard as Kingsolver did. Maybe I need to read TTW a third time.

I also am not liking any of the characters in Poisonwood yet. Well I like the parrot.

edit: I wonder if I'd be more forgiving of Poisonwood if it was set in Chicago instead of Africa.