Libraries are exempt -- actually the only books they are worried about are the toy books -- ones with buttons, plastic parts -- the noisy books that play sounds when you push a button
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'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."
beth b - Mar 17, 2009 6:48:14 pm PDT #8607 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Shari_H - Mar 19, 2009 8:43:05 am PDT #8608 of 28431
Keep breathing!
Please pay attention to this issue - the bill is the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act. Congress passed it quickly last year in response to the panic over lead in toys from China, but it's a sloppily-written bill that is already hurting industries from children's clothing to thrift stores to dirt bikes. Libraries and book stores have what to worry about.
This guy has been following the issue. The Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal have written about it, too.
Congress needs to go back and clarify their intentions and straighten this out, because it's forcing retailers to throw out stock and will put a lot of companies out of business by raising the cost of production out of sight.
Getting off my soapbox, now, thanks...
Hil R. - Mar 19, 2009 4:50:56 pm PDT #8609 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just finished reading The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper. It's her memoir of growing up in Liberia in the seventies, before the civil war, and then going back as an adult. I thought it was great -- she's great at managing to get both the stuff that seems important to a kid and the stuff that was important in the government to all flow together into something coherent.
beth b - Mar 19, 2009 6:39:54 pm PDT #8610 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Dana - Mar 19, 2009 6:42:07 pm PDT #8611 of 28431
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How cool would it be for Neil Gaiman to win both the Newberry and the Hugo for the same book?
beth b - Mar 19, 2009 7:17:43 pm PDT #8612 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
he's got some stiff competition this year. But it would be very cool.
Strix - Mar 23, 2009 5:02:03 pm PDT #8613 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Has anyone read any Richard K Morgan? I got a rec for him lately, and it looks interesting. Any takes?
Consuela - Mar 23, 2009 5:47:04 pm PDT #8614 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
He's a Brit SF writer who's won some awards. I haven't read any of his novels, but they've generally been well-reviewed.
Strix - Mar 23, 2009 6:17:30 pm PDT #8615 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I may have to give the a whirl, see what I think.
Thanks, Suela
Jessica - Mar 24, 2009 3:38:17 am PDT #8616 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've read him - he's fun. Not terribly deep, but good solid hard SF actiony stuff.
[eta that I wasn't a huge fan of Thirteen, even as I appreciated the worldbuilding. But the Takeshi Kovacs novels and his two Black Widow graphic novels I like quite a bit.]