Because I luuuurved Sunshine, and want more stories in that world.
I'd like that too! Not that I don't love her other books, but I'm a little bit tired of them. Sorry!
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Ouise - Mar 17, 2009 11:13:54 am PDT #8597 of 28431
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Toddson - Mar 17, 2009 12:10:44 pm PDT #8598 of 28431
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
- I* want a Sunshine cookbook.
Fay - Mar 17, 2009 2:42:49 pm PDT #8599 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh, yes - I did love Sunshine.
Meanwhile: OMG WTF???
I just came back from my local thrift store with tears in my eyes! I watched as boxes and boxes of children’s books were thrown into the garbage! Today was the deadline and I just can’t believe it! Every book they had on the shelves prior to 1985 was destroyed! I managed to grab a 1967 edition of “The Outsiders” from the top of the box, but so many!
Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2009 2:44:44 pm PDT #8600 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The GARBAGE?
It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute.
THE LIVING FUCK?
Not until 1985 did it become unlawful to use lead pigments in the inks, dyes, and paints used in children’s books.
Oh. Lead. That makes more sense. But still.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2009 2:55:23 pm PDT #8601 of 28431
brillig
Yeah, the most recent "We Must Protect The Children!" law, which may drive lots and lots of small businesses into the ground because each and every new iteration of their product must be extensively tested for toxicity.
megan walker - Mar 17, 2009 3:04:04 pm PDT #8602 of 28431
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Right, because those of us that grew up before the 1980s are so mentally deficient.
Hil R. - Mar 17, 2009 3:05:40 pm PDT #8603 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There must be a better way to regulate the lead danger without getting rid of all those books. Right? I can't actually think of anything, but there's got to be something.
I feel a sudden need to go reread all my old books. And hug them and squeeze them and call them George.
Aims - Mar 17, 2009 4:40:53 pm PDT #8604 of 28431
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I could have sworn that books were supposed to be exempt.
Consuela - Mar 17, 2009 4:56:23 pm PDT #8605 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, the lead thing. So hard to believe they'll actually enforce that.
As for Dragonhaven, ita, well, here's my review. Shorter Suela: I found the narrative voice and choices interfered enormously with what would have been a really interesting novel. It's full of uninteresting digressions, falls into a lot of telling of the story, and avoids dealing with a lot of the most interesting parts of the plot.
I have loved a lot of McKinley's work, but Dragonhaven was so disappointing I think it only sold because of her name: a newbie writer wouldn't have been published on the strength of that novel. Or it would have been rewritten extensively.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2009 5:57:28 pm PDT #8606 of 28431
brillig
So hard to believe they'll actually enforce that.
I doubt anyone will enforce it, but the threat of lawsuits from some loon of a parent who says "My precious darling Poopsie was exposed to Lead!!! I must call my lawyer!" is enough to make people dump things.