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.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
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."
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
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!)
David J. Schwartz - Jul 29, 2008 12:53:14 pm PDT #6736 of 28384
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.
Just a drive-by, and I should have mentioned it before, but: last-minute though it is, I wanted to let the Chicagoistas know that I am in your fair city and will be reading tonight at the Bookslut event at Hopleaf in Andersonville. It's me and Eddie Campbell. Eep! The event starts at 7:30, upstairs--don't know if any of you are close, but if you are, please come on by and say Hi!
sumi - Jul 30, 2008 4:11:46 am PDT #6737 of 28384
Art Crawl!!!
Felicia Day fangirling Jacqueline Carey.
Toddson - Jul 30, 2008 7:20:36 am PDT #6738 of 28384
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Has anyone else read The Disappearing Act of Esme Lennox? it turned up on the remainder table and I remembered reading the review when it first came out - it's good.