More Austen knock-offs. Now she's a member of the vampire resistance fighting the French.
I'd probably check that out of the library, at least.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Calli - May 02, 2009 6:26:15 am PDT #9069 of 28769
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Jesse - May 04, 2009 3:07:12 am PDT #9070 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I started reading Revolutionary Road (never saw the movie), and it's just ugh. I want to smack them and make them grow up. (Which I realize is kind of ironic, given that their misery seems to be 90% caused by them doing what they think "grown ups" should do...) Will anything happen later in the book to change this, or should I just stop reading?
Barb - May 04, 2009 4:03:24 am PDT #9071 of 28769
“Not dead yet!”
It's not a happy book in the slightest, Jesse, and the ending is devastating.
The book is a tremendous reflection of its time, but yeah, it's a hard book in terms of wanting to smack the protags.
Jesse - May 04, 2009 4:37:10 am PDT #9072 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't need to reflect on those times in that way. OK, onward and upward!
Consuela - May 04, 2009 4:58:34 am PDT #9073 of 28769
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And that is why I didn't want to watch the movie, and why I stopped watching Mad Men after 2 episodes.
I might have jury duty this afternoon. Cross your fingers that they let me read! (Last time I had jury duty I made it all the way to voir dire and they didn't let you read while you waited in the courtroom...)
Jesse - May 04, 2009 5:11:02 am PDT #9074 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At least on Mad Men you don't have to be inside their heads, and you can see the pretty clothes!
beth b - May 04, 2009 5:52:01 am PDT #9075 of 28769
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I got frowned at for reading last time
Beverly - May 04, 2009 6:20:58 am PDT #9076 of 28769
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There was a tv blaring soaps and three separate conversations at competing volume last time I had to await jury selection. One of the people also waiting was a state cop. He walked by the coatroom and saw me tucked away there in semi-silence, reading, and flashed me a grin.
Kathy A - May 04, 2009 8:23:15 am PDT #9077 of 28769
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - May 04, 2009 8:29:34 am PDT #9078 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha! Impatient kitty is impatient!