Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'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."
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!
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).
beth b - Feb 15, 2009 12:08:13 pm PST #8448 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I read the Trumpeter of Krakow (ehh)and Hitty (pretty good) for the 20s. I have one more I am waiting that is short stories.
For the 30s , 40s and 50s I have read The Cat Who Went to Heaven ,The door in the Wall, and Twenty-one Ballons. All were actually very good. I think I could sell 'em all. Of course I have 3 or 4 more I want to read, and that is before we even start the discussion.
flea - Feb 17, 2009 7:52:55 am PST #8449 of 28431
information libertarian
Need a good cathartic cry? NYTimes story about two children's librarians killed in a car accident: [link]
megan walker - Feb 18, 2009 6:25:38 pm PST #8450 of 28431
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has anyone here ever used Shelfari? If so, thoughts?
meara - Feb 18, 2009 6:48:15 pm PST #8451 of 28431
Similarily, I know people were using LibraryThing, but then I thought people had liked some other options better--what are the various options out there for cataloguing your books??
Currently I've got mine mostly up to date in LibraryThing (at least, the books I care about), and I like that I can thus be out shopping and look up in their mobile interface what I've got and what I'm missing.
Things I would like integrated into that--some sort of wishlist (so it was easier to see the books I KNOW I'm looking for), a "checked out to friends" option or something, and maybe a "I read this, but don't own it" option (possibly integrated with the "I WANT to own it" option)
Any suggestions? Shall I jump ship from LT? I've already paid for a lifetime membership (it was what, $25?) so it's not a rush, but it's also not going to hurt them if I do.
flea - Feb 19, 2009 3:24:29 am PST #8452 of 28431
information libertarian
meara, have you let the LibraryThing people know what options you want? Because they do add things and update fairly often, so if you made a case for them they might built it!
Tom Scola - Feb 19, 2009 3:51:07 am PST #8453 of 28431
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I really want to use a spoilery line from Anathem as a tagline:
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs,” I said. “We have a protractor.”