::facepalm::
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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 - Jun 09, 2009 5:11:11 am PDT #9215 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Volans - Jun 09, 2009 8:20:43 am PDT #9216 of 28404
move out and draw fire
Ha! You are unmasked, Neil!
sumi - Jun 09, 2009 8:23:48 am PDT #9217 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
Bwaha!
erikaj - Jun 09, 2009 8:24:36 am PDT #9218 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
Don't feel bad, Fay. I never noticed either. But it does make me feel a touch awkward about my Heidi Klum comments in the fic thread, if you're Neil Gaiman.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 09, 2009 9:05:01 am PDT #9219 of 28404
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
So, now Fay is dating Amanda Palmer? [link]
Fay - Jun 09, 2009 9:21:13 am PDT #9220 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Did everyone else already know about LibriVox? An amateur archive of audiobooks from Project Guttenberg? I'm going to record The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands, because she is fucking awesome.
Free Podbooks (granted, of varying quality, but what the hell). Poems! Plays!
loves the internet
Atropa - Jun 10, 2009 10:42:50 am PDT #9221 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ha! You are unmasked, Neil!
laughs and laughs and laughs
Tho' I must admit, I've never seen them in the same places, and I have no photos with the both of them ...
Gris - Jun 10, 2009 11:42:25 am PDT #9222 of 28404
Hey. New board.
The government teacher at my school has me hunting for very specific books. She is planning to start next year with literature circles around the theme "Arts as a response to government" and is missing a few key governments.
We are looking for books that fit that theme in the following government systems: fascism (she's a holocaust-obsessive and so would would prefer the Nazi brand), monarchy, and apartheid. She has already chosen books for communism (Mao's Last Dancer) and theocracy (Persepolis). It should be on a 9th-10th grade reading level at the HIGHEST, and most of our students really read on the 6th-7th grade level if not lower.
I offered up The Book Thief, but it was decided (not really by me) that it was a little too difficult and long to be a likely success, and we'd rather find an example involving the performing arts, anyway, since we're a PA school. So. Any suggestions?
Gris - Jun 10, 2009 11:43:07 am PDT #9223 of 28404
Hey. New board.
P.S. Anathem was AWESOME.
juliana - Jun 10, 2009 11:48:19 am PDT #9224 of 28404
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Gris, here's a link detailing some South African writers: [link] I promptly thought of Athol Fugard, but Serote sounds very interesting.