Barb - there's also the Morganville Vampire series - that's set at college. I rather like them.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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."
Fay - Apr 05, 2009 5:24:33 pm PDT #8675 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Laga - Apr 05, 2009 5:45:55 pm PDT #8676 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just realized one of the books that floats around in my head is set during Freshman year at college. Maybe I should reframe it as YA and get cracking.
Consuela - Apr 05, 2009 6:18:31 pm PDT #8677 of 28431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just read Ellen Klages' White Sands, Red Menace, which is the sequel to Green Glass Sea. It's a very evocative look at life just after WWII, in a family of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and now are working on the V-2 rockets with Von Braun. The two girl leads have to deal with the inherent sexism of the time (one wants to be an engineer, the other is an artist in mixed media), racism, and the political stress of the beginning of the cold war.
Highly recommended, anyway.
Jesse - Apr 07, 2009 5:13:54 am PDT #8678 of 28431
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just got Lawrence Block's newsletter, and he's offering a box of random stuff -- 12 books! -- for $50. [link] They say:
No telling what you'll find, but we guarantee a hardcover first edition of Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, and at least two other LB hardcovers. There'll be foreign editions, anthologies, UK paperbacks, and other odds and ends, all at a tiny fraction of our regular retail prices.
So tempting!
javachik - Apr 07, 2009 9:33:34 am PDT #8679 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
Does anyone have an idea what to do with old Cliff Notes/Spark Notes? I have a bunch and don't want to sell them one by one on Amazon. I don't need money for them, but don't want to just dump them in recycling them.
Jessica - Apr 07, 2009 9:34:06 am PDT #8680 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Java, would a library take them?
javachik - Apr 07, 2009 9:34:58 am PDT #8681 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
That's one thought - and I am going to the Alameda Library tomorrow night in fact (author is giving a talk). Thanks, Jess.
beth b - Apr 07, 2009 9:35:38 am PDT #8682 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
library for sure
SuziQ - Apr 07, 2009 11:04:39 am PDT #8683 of 28431
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
java - do you have any Shakespeare ones? If the library doesn't take them, I'm sure CJ would love them.
He has also been asking me a lot about Greek Mythology lately. What would be a good book for me to get him? I don't know if he is ready for anything like the Iliad, when do kids normally get introduced to that?
Kathy A - Apr 07, 2009 11:05:21 am PDT #8684 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Edith Hamilton Mythology is the usual go-to text for schools.