Man, if that shirt weren't yellow...
You, however, will rock it.
I can't even say why I love this one so much, but oh, I do.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
JZ - Jul 16, 2008 9:07:03 am PDT #6726 of 28384
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 10:43:46 am PDT #6727 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, if that shirt weren't yellow...
I dislike yellow, and I don't own *anything* in that color. I think it makes me look sallow. But I wanted the shirt really badly, and the design takes up such a large part of the shirt that I figured I could deal with the yellow.
t /not here
le nubian - Jul 16, 2008 12:19:16 pm PDT #6728 of 28384
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix - Jul 16, 2008 6:41:13 pm PDT #6729 of 28384
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
yellow makes me look like cat vomit, but I love that shirt, Tep!!
why are all cute reading shirts yellow? GREEN is much more literary. It's the color of...alphabet neurons?
Yeah, I dunno.
Steph L. - Jul 18, 2008 5:31:29 am PDT #6730 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I finished Skulduggery Pleasant this morning -- it's pretty good! One of the review snippets on the back cover calls it a "new genre -- screwball fantasy," and that's not far off. The comparisons to the Harry Potter books are inevitable, and it does have *some* similarities, most notably the existence of the magical world right under the noses of the non-magic people. But beyond that, there really aren't any other striking similarities.
It's got a lot of elements in common with the Kiki Strike books, actually, perhaps a TINY dash of Buffy, and the title character (although he's a skeleton) reminds me of no one more than Remington Steele. Seriously.
It's fun -- I think Buffistas would like it. There's a sequel, which I just started.
Oh, also -- in the first book, the primary baddie's weapon of choice is some weird power where his all he has to do is point his right hand, which is all skinless and red and gross, at a person/creature, and they die a gruesome, agonizing death.
Its name? The Red Right Hand. (The character who wielded it did NOT, unfortunately, have a soundtrack playing whenever he did battle. [And I have no doubt that the author name it that deliberately.])
(Oh yes, I laughed my ass off at that.)
Calli - Jul 25, 2008 11:23:30 am PDT #6731 of 28384
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Late to the party, but I loved Sunshine. I recommended it to my bookgroup who aren't, on the whole, enamored with vampire novels or post-apocalyptic SF/fantasy. They adored it.
sumi - Jul 25, 2008 3:02:22 pm PDT #6732 of 28384
Art Crawl!!!
The Guthrie's stage version of Little House on the Prairie is a surprise hit!
sumi - Jul 25, 2008 3:09:52 pm PDT #6733 of 28384
Art Crawl!!!
Hmm, apparently, the LHotP is a musical.
megan walker - Jul 25, 2008 3:10:27 pm PDT #6734 of 28384
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fun! I remember being very dubious of the opera version of Little Women but it was really well done.
juliana - Jul 25, 2008 3:13:47 pm PDT #6735 of 28384
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
The Guthrie's stage version of Little House on the Prairie is a surprise hit!
Yeah, I'm actually unsurprised there. It seems tailor-made for that. (Not ragging on it, just: Midwest + plucky heroine + musical numbers = big bucks!)