BF and I are already excitedly planning our reading list for our vacation, which is not 'til August. Vacations are all about reading for us (well, reading , eating and Teh Sex) and deciding which books to take is one of the most fun parts of planning.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Scrappy - Jun 28, 2006 7:57:11 pm PDT #908 of 28074
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Volans - Jun 28, 2006 8:05:50 pm PDT #909 of 28074
move out and draw fire
and coincidentally enough, the post also features Watership Down, because Raq is awesome.
Hee! I was just over there reading your post and thinking about commenting "Hey, P-C and I share a brain because I was just talking about Watership Down elsewhere!"
And because The Shipping News still blows.
Anne W. - Jun 29, 2006 1:54:49 am PDT #910 of 28074
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
And because The Shipping News still blows.
Thank you. I tried three times to get into that book, since it's one of my mom's favorites. I just couldn't.
Kate P. - Jun 29, 2006 5:06:35 am PDT #911 of 28074
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Cindy, your post reminded me of when I read (re-read, mind you!) The Haunting of Hill House right after Pete and I had moved into our house. Our house that makes odd creaky noises, and that I had not gotten at ALL used to. That was not a good night.
Oh man. This reminds me of when I was in 7th grade and read The Amityville Horror, very shortly after moving to a new room (new addition) in our house. It's silly, because it was the same house I'd been living in for years, but I managed to convince myself that it was possible that the land that the addition was built over was haunted (old Indian burial ground, naturally) but the rest of the house wasn't. The freakiest thing was that my bed would shake sometimes, and it took me months to figure out why (in response to the vibrations when someone would walk up the stairs), so I just quietly freaked out every time it happened, convinced that Satan was about to spring out from underneath my bed.
I don't do very well with horror.
Dana - Jun 29, 2006 5:33:07 am PDT #912 of 28074
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Everyone knows that you're supposed to put scary books in the freezer.
Volans - Jun 29, 2006 5:37:12 am PDT #913 of 28074
move out and draw fire
Oh, yeah, The Amityville Horror. I read that in 4th grade. What a bad move. We'd been in the house for a year, but the house was over 100 years old, and I'd already had a bad experience (I dreamed of my room burning for the first two weeks straight after moving there, until my parents told me that that part of the house had in fact burned down in the 1950s...oddly this settled me down). I couldn't see a fly without panicking.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 29, 2006 5:39:00 am PDT #914 of 28074
What is even happening?
But the freezer is in the house, Dana. The car was not in the house, nor was its trunk. It wasn't even in the garage.
Plus? Some sunlight could (in theory) get into the trunk of the car. That's far less likely than it getting into the freezer.
I should have left it on the dashboard.
Kate, I remember reading AH. So scary! I think I was 15 or so. I went on vacation with my cousin, her husband and kids, to babysit for them, on nights they wanted to go out. I also read The Godfather, that week, and something else that's slipping my mind (possibly a re-read of The Shining).
Ginger - Jun 29, 2006 5:42:30 am PDT #915 of 28074
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
While I was reading Salem's Lot, I did go into the kitchen at about 3 a.m. to make sure there was garlic in the refrigerator.
Amy - Jun 29, 2006 5:42:36 am PDT #916 of 28074
Because books.
Totally girly, but I remember reading Forever in bed at night in fourth grade, all sneaky and self-satisfied, and wondering what "Love and Other Indoor Sports" meant, when one of the guys signed a letter to Katherine that way. And then passing it around during school one morning, until our very male and very panicky teacher took it away from us.
I also remember the summer I was seventeen staying up one night reading Peter Straub's Floating Dragon until I was terrified. I was at the beach with friends, in an unfamiliar house and an unfamiliar bed, and for the first time I slept with the light on all night.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2006 7:09:11 am PDT #917 of 28074
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I tried three times to get into that book, since it's one of my mom's favorites. I just couldn't.
The worst part was that a friend gave it to me for my birthday because she loved it, and she left little notes throughout the book for me. The notes were the best part and the main reason I kept reading.
And then the book perished in the Great Postal Service Disaster of 2003. I wouldn't have minded losing the book if it hadn't been a birthday present.
Everyone knows that you're supposed to put scary books in the freezer.
That reminds me of the time Joey put Little Women in the freezer.