who can I sweet-talk into going to the Pickerington OH B&N on the 28th of June?
Lovey, I'd drive up there for you, but we won't be back from vacation yet.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Steph L. - Jun 11, 2008 2:21:34 pm PDT #6095 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
sumi - Jun 12, 2008 3:51:32 am PDT #6096 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
BBC news item in which an excerpt from the Harry Potter pre-quel that was recently sold at auction is read. And in August a book is coming out that contains all the stories that were auctioned (includes stories from Neil Gaiman and Doris Lessing.)
sumi - Jun 12, 2008 3:56:21 am PDT #6097 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, did I spell Neil wrong? Does he go by "Neal"?
amych - Jun 12, 2008 4:06:32 am PDT #6098 of 28370
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Nope, Sumi, you got it right -- Gaiman is Neil.
Kate P. - Jun 12, 2008 4:12:12 am PDT #6099 of 28370
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
It's spelled Neil. edit: x-posty
And in August a book is coming out that contains all the stories that were auctioned (includes stories from Neil Gaiman and Doris Lessing.)
Heh, sumi, for a minute I thought you meant that Neil Gaiman and Doris Lessing had written stories in the Harry Potter universe!
brenda m - Jun 12, 2008 4:13:46 am PDT #6100 of 28370
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
Heh, I totally thought that too.
sumi - Jun 12, 2008 4:24:12 am PDT #6101 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Hee. That would amuse. . . but no, I don't think that's what's going on.
(But the Rowling story apparently involves James and Sirius.)
sumi - Jun 12, 2008 4:56:05 am PDT #6102 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Found at Readerville, but really from the New Yorker book blog:
Department of Sheer Genius
Because lately the only thing that seems to sell better than books about vampires is books about Jane Austen, Publishers Weekly reports that the writer Michael Thomas Ford has sold his novel about “an undead Jane Austen, frustrated by nearly 200 years of writer’s block and 116 rejections of an unpublished novel she finished just before turning into a vampire.” I have nothing to add to the brilliance of this idea.—Andrea Walker
Steph L. - Jun 12, 2008 5:00:15 am PDT #6103 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Does she sparkle?
sumi - Jun 12, 2008 5:06:51 am PDT #6104 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Only her wit.