Would die. Would babble and sputter for 5 minutes first, and then die.
Then she'd probably ask if you wanted to go outside for a smoke, then buy you a martini in the bar. Because seriously, that's just how Nora is.
Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.
'Never Leave 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."
Barb - Aug 07, 2008 11:50:37 am PDT #6895 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Toddson - Aug 07, 2008 12:06:49 pm PDT #6896 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There's a second-hand bookstore in Silver Spring that specializes in romances and they have a special section for local authors that's mostly Nora Roberts. From everything I've seen and heard, she's nice and a class act (did you hear about her offering matching funds for the ferrets?).
Barb - Aug 07, 2008 12:22:23 pm PDT #6897 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Yep-- I was in on that. She also had bought an old building in her neck of the Maryland woods with the intent of turning it into a B&B-- saving the building since it was of 18th century vintage. And something like two weeks before it was going to open, it caught fire. At that point, she could've easily cut her losses and run, but she's apparently rebuilding the place because she can't bear the thought of the remains being torn down.
She's very much a straight shooter-- with Nora, seriously, what you see is what you get.
Strix - Aug 07, 2008 12:39:37 pm PDT #6898 of 28385
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have read Nora since I read my mom's "Irish Thoroughbred" (I know Plei has horsey issues with...) and have always read and really enjoyed a huge amount of her novels.
Reading her on SBTN has just upped the total-Nora love; she's just really, really cool and nice and no-shit, and my god, how can anyone write that much?
One of the things I SO enjoy about the internet is how it can connect you, even superficially (but also profoundly), with people you never, never, NEVER would have contact with without it.
I realize this is not an earthshakingly new realization, but I think it's so interesting. I grew up a phone and letter-girl, went to college as computers-as-communication-tool were coming in, and now, there's a whole generation who has never been unable to instantly contact whoever they want, via text or net. There are con's, I know, but IMO, it's almost all win.
Amy - Aug 07, 2008 12:50:01 pm PDT #6899 of 28385
Because books.
Nora is a seriously cool woman. Not even an ounce of bullshit there.
P.M. Marc - Aug 07, 2008 12:52:49 pm PDT #6900 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
Dude. Even before the Internets, it was NOT THAT HARD to figure out the various horse racing CC & Rs and procedures. IT WAS NOT.
There is NO excuse for that book. NONE.
Wow. Yep. Still angry with the thing. HA!
sumi - Aug 07, 2008 12:55:23 pm PDT #6901 of 28385
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
sumi - Aug 07, 2008 12:59:01 pm PDT #6902 of 28385
Art Crawl!!!
BTW, I just read bad news about Princess Rooney. She's been diagnosed with EPM.
P.M. Marc - Aug 07, 2008 1:05:56 pm PDT #6903 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
Poor thing. Wow. She's 28?
Time flies.
sumi - Aug 07, 2008 1:27:51 pm PDT #6904 of 28385
Art Crawl!!!
I know!