Wow. Granted that I haven't read the Twilight books, only the recaps/synopses/spoilers, but still -- that shit sounds even WORSE than the Anita Blake books, which I didn't actually think was possible.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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. - Aug 05, 2008 11:40:34 am PDT #6812 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Kat - Aug 05, 2008 11:41:13 am PDT #6813 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WRT the actual birth of the baby it totally makes me wonder how awful SM's experience with childbirth must have been.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 11:44:16 am PDT #6814 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Worse than HP7's "All was well" ?
Kat - Aug 05, 2008 11:44:54 am PDT #6815 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
lisah: And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.
Smug much?
Kat - Aug 05, 2008 11:46:13 am PDT #6816 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P-C, yes.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 11:48:04 am PDT #6817 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh my GOD. Wow.
I mean, okay. I have never written a book, let alone a series. And I suppose I could conceive of doing what she did. But I have to believe I could come up with something better. Surely.
amych - Aug 05, 2008 11:48:57 am PDT #6818 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oh deer loward. She couldn't make the tiny extra bit of effort it would take to spell it "4eva"?
I'm honestly so much more amused by snarking on this thing than I ever could've been by reading it.
Susan W. - Aug 05, 2008 11:48:58 am PDT #6819 of 28385
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yeah, I read the cleolinda summary, and, you know, the pregnancy stuff was just SO over the top that it didn't even squick me. And I had a bad late pregnancy & L&D experience.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 11:53:19 am PDT #6820 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P.M. Marc - Aug 05, 2008 11:59:57 am PDT #6821 of 28385
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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