Allende's Paula is inextricably linked to riding on a bus through the Slovakian hinterlands. Even though it has no resemblance at all to the surroundings I was in.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
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."
sarameg - Dec 02, 2008 3:18:28 pm PST #8099 of 28427
DavidS - Dec 04, 2008 1:09:48 pm PST #8100 of 28427
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does everybody know about the Horror Masters site?
It's a huge archive of public domain horror, pulp and fantasy stories in a very readable .pdf format.
So if, for example, you get the urge to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" or "The Monkey's Paw" or even whole novels like Wm. Beckford's Vathek it's there for you. They've got 2,866 titles. Novels, short stories and poetry. Hawthorne, Machen, ETA Hoffman, Stoker, Shelley, Wilkie Collins... All on the dark side, all free.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2008 10:28:06 am PST #8101 of 28427
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Dec 05, 2008 10:30:26 am PST #8102 of 28427
Art Crawl!!!
That is hilarious!
Must send link to all friends.
juliana - Dec 05, 2008 10:38:59 am PST #8103 of 28427
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Knut just posted this link on Facebook and it cracked me up:
I love it! (I just re-read the book the other week, too.)
Kathy A - Dec 05, 2008 10:47:49 am PST #8104 of 28427
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's very funny. But I don't get the icons--I'm guessing it's some Facebook thing?
Polter-Cow - Dec 05, 2008 11:11:48 am PST #8105 of 28427
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, those are the icons Facebook uses.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2008 1:10:06 pm PST #8106 of 28427
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh that's adorable, and I say that as a non-FB fan.
Ginger - Dec 05, 2008 6:17:34 pm PST #8107 of 28427
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Forry Ackerman died. [link]
Connie Neil - Dec 09, 2008 5:26:27 pm PST #8108 of 28427
brillig
I have achieved a personal library goal, Philip Gosse's History of Piracy. Hooray for small presses that reprint interesting books. My copy was done in 1988, and there's a note on the copyright page saying that the copy that the press used to reprint was found by International Booksellers, which makes me think original copies are not so easy to track down.
Wonderful bibliography, if only I read French and Spanish and Dutch and could find copies of 400-year-old books etc. Several pages on my pirate ancestor, Jan Jansen AKA Murat Reis.
I need another bookshelf.