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."
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
'Potential'
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."
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.
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.
Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2008 10:07:08 am PDT #7680 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
Dude! I was right: [link]
Strix - Oct 03, 2008 2:53:11 pm PDT #7681 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Kathy, I've read both the Cast and the Mead YA vampire novels and I prefer the Mead. The Cast heroine is a little too Mary-Sue + TSTL at times. They're not awful, but they're not great.
I quite like the Vampire Academy books...but, as people have pointed out, check out how much the cover of the 2nd in that series looks like Buffy and Angel, Season 2
Barb - Oct 03, 2008 3:03:24 pm PDT #7682 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
I think the concept of the Cast novels is interesting, but I haven't read them because P.C. was incredibly rude to me when we were both on a panel at a conference back when the first book had only just been published. It was a panel on writing YA and by luck or design, I was the only one who wasn't writing paranormal YA and she treated me like I was such a major second class citizen.
Turned me right off of any of her books, adult or YA. Which is perhaps petty, but it was really off-putting how rude she was to me in a public forum.