Ptooey, indeed, Barb. Life is too short for Stupid Books.
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
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."
Consuela - Feb 08, 2009 6:26:24 pm PST #8438 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Barb - Feb 08, 2009 6:29:39 pm PST #8439 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Yeah, but Roger has some great scenes where he evens the score a bit.
I did mention I'm Roger's bitch, right?
Consuela - Feb 08, 2009 6:32:20 pm PST #8440 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You did. But since I stopped reading them, I guess I'll never know. ::shrugs::
Instead I'm rereading the Morgaine novels this weekend. Comfort reading, which is funny, because like most Cherryh, they're full of angst and exhaustion.
Beverly - Feb 08, 2009 7:58:40 pm PST #8441 of 28431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
OooOOo, Cherryh.
I'm still of the firm opinion that Merchanters' Luck is a sort of sister to Firefly. I didn't read that book, I absorbed it. It's written exactly the way I think. My husband hated it, he couldn't stand the shorthanded language.
And the Russalka books, and the Chanur books, and the Faded Sun books, and, and, and. Angst and exhaustion, yes, but you know that going in. And so worth it.
Consuela - Feb 08, 2009 8:25:06 pm PST #8442 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I haven't read Merchanter's Luck in probably decades. I don't even have a copy anymore, which is a shame. I recall it being one of her more accessible introductions to the Alliance/Union universe.
And now: Oh noes! Poor Vanye has just been captured by the bad guys! (Again. He gets captured a lot.) And now he's all "Woe I must live because if Morgaine is dead I must continue the Quest. So no noble suicide-by-bad-guy for me!" (He does this a lot too.)
If you like the Morgaine books, Barb, there was a simply awesome novella written for Yuletide a few years ago, set after the last Morgaine book. It's all horses and interpersonal drama, with some great explosions and fight scenes, too.
sumi - Feb 09, 2009 7:24:45 am PST #8443 of 28431
Art Crawl!!!
Part 1 of a 4 part interview with Neil Gaiman.
(Parts 2-4 are on that page too.)
ETA: Sorry - given context I thought that this was recent but I believe that this is probably from August.
Polter-Cow - Feb 09, 2009 11:13:42 am PST #8444 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!.
hippocampus - Feb 09, 2009 2:33:56 pm PST #8445 of 28431
not your mom's socks.
I'm still of the firm opinion that Merchanters' Luck is a sort of sister to Firefly.
I will be checking this out then.
As soon as I finish China Mieville's The Scar. With which I am absolutely, completely smitten.
eta: I can write a correctly choreographed sentence.
Pix - Feb 10, 2009 10:08:12 pm PST #8446 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.
I met Sandra Cisneros tonight! She was our speaker for my school's speaker series this year, and I got to chat with her early and then listen to her wonderful reading. She was genuine and friendly and inspirational, and I'm giddy even thinking about it now. Yay!
Kathy A - Feb 11, 2009 8:41:54 am PST #8447 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For all of those Little House fans out there, I stumbled across this NPR Xmas special from a few years ago. It's an hour long reading of excerpts from the books with songs from the (so far) two collections of songs mentioned in the books (the CDs' producers are hoping to put out ten CDs in all).