Oh my - just when I think I couldn't possibly love xkcd any more: House of Pancakes
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
Jessica - Sep 05, 2008 8:43:49 am PDT #7288 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2008 8:49:45 am PDT #7289 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jess, your blue font made me laugh and laugh.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2008 8:50:13 am PDT #7290 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"The decision to not hyphenate "kids only" is likely related to the omission of the serial comma. I wonder if the author is British. I wonder if he sleeps at night."
Jessica - Sep 05, 2008 8:50:53 am PDT #7291 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jess, your blue font made me laugh and laugh.
It seemed appropriate.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2008 8:54:52 am PDT #7292 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jess, your blue font made me laugh and laugh.
I was very confused until I clicked the hyperlink and only part of it turned purple. Hee.
I've wanted to read House of Leaves for a while. It looks even more daunting now.
Barb - Sep 05, 2008 9:45:16 am PDT #7293 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
I just thought of a narrator who's both reliable and unreliable-- Briony in ATONEMENT. The epilogue of the book is just one big WTF when you realize what McEwan did with the narrative.
I wanted to smack him almost as much as I wanted to worship at his feet.
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2008 9:48:03 am PDT #7294 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh! Briony! I loathed her as much as I loathed Nelly Dean.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2008 9:55:56 am PDT #7295 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just thought of a narrator who's both reliable and unreliable-- Briony in ATONEMENT. The epilogue of the book is just one big WTF when you realize what McEwan did with the narrative.
Oh! Now I want to read it.
Barb - Sep 05, 2008 10:12:43 am PDT #7296 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Oooh! Briony! I loathed her as much as I loathed Nelly Dean.
The phrase that kept running through my head as I read that book was "that little twat." Seriously. I read it out on the flight to San Diego in February and Lewis kept having to put his hand on my leg because it was twitching and bouncing so furiously.
Dana - Sep 05, 2008 11:35:27 am PDT #7297 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"You read such different books! I've heard you recommend to customers titles on everything from early Christianity to the Time Travelers Wife, then science books, and now musical theater?"
I don't really read non-fiction, other than the news.