Well he hasn't been murdered by zombies yet, so there you are.
He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.
Anya ,'Touched'
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 - Oct 03, 2008 7:14:34 am PDT #7670 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Fay - Oct 03, 2008 8:32:16 am PDT #7671 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Also, Claudia Grey's Evernight will hopefully be good - she's a TERRIFIC fanfic writer (under another name, natch). The premise is rather too familiar, but I've adored her fanfic for years, so I'll certainly be buying the book as soon as it's available in my bookshop.
Atropa - Oct 03, 2008 8:39:02 am PDT #7672 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
REALLY? Nancy Collins?! Color me surpised. That seems a weird...turnaround. I mean, usually an author goes from the frothier stuff to the edgier stuff later.
We're talking "Sunglasses After Dark" Collins, right?
Yep, same author. It's really strange. Vamps reads like a Nancy A. Collins book, just with the edges wrapped in fluff and a thick coating of Vogue magazine on top.
Typo Boy - Oct 03, 2008 9:03:31 am PDT #7673 of 28404
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Nancy Collins and her partner performance artist Joe Christ at one time had one of the greatest voicemail messages of all time. "The Whore of Babylon and the Anti-Christ can't come to the phone by now, but if you leave a message we'll be happy to return your call."
Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2008 9:34:32 am PDT #7674 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Skipping to see if anyone else had The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature when you were young: [link] I"m writing a (fun) paper for my YA Lit class about my reading history. I had forgotten about this book. I loved it like whoa as a kid. I remember seeing it at the bookstore and begging for it. If I recall correctly, I got it as a Christmas gift. Anyway, just cruising down reading memory lane.
Barb - Oct 03, 2008 9:44:33 am PDT #7675 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, wow, GC-- I had that book. I think it was given to me as a third birthday present. In fact, that's the book I taught myself to read from because I'd pestered everyone to death and they wouldn't read to me anymore, so I decided fie on them and started reading to myself.
Wow-- talk about a trip down memory lane.
amych - Oct 03, 2008 9:46:01 am PDT #7676 of 28404
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
OMG I did! I haven't thought of it in ages.
Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2008 9:53:24 am PDT #7677 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh yay! I remember reading The Match Stick Girl over and over and over (sob). Also there was a story about a fisherman who caught a fish that granted him a wish. He made a modest wish but his wife was greedy and unsatisfied so she made him go back and ask the fish for another wish (grander). This happened a few times until the fish finally took it all away. Remember that one? Remember the name by chance? Was it The Fisherman and His Wife?
Dana - Oct 03, 2008 9:55:53 am PDT #7678 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I still have a copy of it.
Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2008 9:56:42 am PDT #7679 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I wonder if my parents still have mine. I'd love to have it.