Many thanks, PC.
BTW, I still owe you a writeup of the Percy Jackson series. I think you'd really like it. I hope to get to that this weekend.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Anne W. - Jun 27, 2008 1:14:09 pm PDT #6585 of 28597
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
sumi - Jun 28, 2008 6:41:22 pm PDT #6586 of 28597
Art Crawl!!!
Best novel: Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American author: In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking
Best Paperback original: Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Best critical/biographical: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
Best Fact Crime: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
Best Short Story: "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)
Best Young Adult: Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)
Best Juvenile: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
Best Play: Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Best Television episode teleplay: "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
Best motion picture screenplay: Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
The Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
Grand Master: Bill Pronzini
Raven Awards:Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Kate's Mystery Books (Kate Mattes, owner)
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2008 7:29:03 pm PDT #6587 of 28597
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mary Higgins Clark has an award named after her? Huh. I went through a Mary Higgins Clark phase in junior high.
beth b - Jun 28, 2008 7:35:16 pm PDT #6588 of 28597
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just ordered Knut's book at my local B&N I really don't know why people make me wait . and my 200+ to be read pile does not make me feel guilty. nope
DavidS - Jun 30, 2008 10:09:46 am PDT #6589 of 28597
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Follow-up to the Goth Poetry discussion. I've posted The Waterboys very pretty version of Yeats' "The Stolen Child" up at Buffistarawk.
Hayden - Jun 30, 2008 10:30:29 am PDT #6590 of 28597
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My first guest-blog post over at Powell's Books. (xposted in Music)
Polter-Cow - Jul 02, 2008 4:24:47 pm PDT #6591 of 28597
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Anyone else read it? It's very oogy and disturbing in an understated way.
I also read Choke, which is my least favorite Palahniuk so far (I love Fight Club and Lullaby ), mostly because the narrator is much more unlikable. And there isn't a very strong narrative drive; it's mostly a string of thematics and internal monologue. The ending made me like the book a lot more than I expected to, though.
hippocampus - Jul 03, 2008 5:11:18 am PDT #6592 of 28597
not your mom's socks.
just found this: graphic novel built in facebook - [link]
Jesse - Jul 04, 2008 7:32:47 am PDT #6593 of 28597
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just finished Superpowers, and really really liked it. I'm trying to figure out who to lend my copy to first.
brenda m - Jul 04, 2008 7:41:26 am PDT #6594 of 28597
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 gave mine away the other day and meant to pick up another for me this weekend to finish reading but I didn't make it to the book store. Dammit.
I do love handing out Buffista books like some bizarro-world Watchtower. Just wish I could afford to do it more often.