It's...almost all plot!
She put all the plot from the last 10 books in one?
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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."
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 9:04:10 am PST #7886 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 9:19:58 am PST #7887 of 28414
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hee. I wouldn't go THAT far, but it's pretty move-the-action forwardy.
Toddson - Nov 06, 2008 9:33:34 am PST #7888 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And by action you mean ... (hey, this IS LKH)
Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:34:41 am PST #7889 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ok, YA readers, I have just finished The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Seriously the book rocked. The NYT called it when it said that Frankie is a feminist character chaffing against the Old Boy's Network. So good! Anyone else read it?
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2008 9:46:54 am PST #7890 of 28414
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kat, I am going to take the CSET. I took the practice test and did well on analysis and comprehension, but sucked at the theoretical stuff. Do you have any books on teaching reading skills you can recommend? So I can tell a phoneme from a schmomeme and stuff.
Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:50:35 am PST #7891 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Marilyn Adams is a big deal in early literacy. She has lots of info on teaching reading for early grades (is it CSET for elem, right?) I didn't know you were trying to get a credential.
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 10:00:43 am PST #7892 of 28414
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Toddson, by action I meant actual action. Weird, innit?
ION, I also read "Middlesex" last night. I'd tried to read "The Virgin Suicides" years ago and was terribly bored and couldn't get into it, so I had been "eh" about trying "Middlesex" for years. But I got it at the library and was pretty entertained. Although I thought the ending was truncated and kinda of abrupt and lacking.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 10:14:15 am PST #7893 of 28414
brillig
I'm reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion. I think I have a new near-favorite author.
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2008 10:21:15 am PST #7894 of 28414
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am aiming for the Distric Intern thingie in Middle School English--as a way in to eventually teaching Drama. I realized I really missed teaching and I ain't getting any younger. And, frankly, you are an inspiration to me as a teacher, as well as other Buffista teachers. I have two friends who did the intern program and really liked it and are both now teaching Drama.
This wouldn't be until next year, as the test is in January and the training is in May.
Gris - Nov 06, 2008 3:43:43 pm PST #7895 of 28414
Hey. New board.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Love. Re-reading some of her stuff right now, AIFG.