But you should totally read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
I keep meaning to read that. I've seen one of the Masterpiece Theater productions, and I was really intrigued by the story. Very different sensibility than her sisters.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Amy - Jul 10, 2009 7:49:20 pm PDT #9568 of 28611
Because books.
erikaj - Jul 10, 2009 7:53:10 pm PDT #9569 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod....what she said.(But their brother kind of was one, wasn't he? In a 'get high and brood' sort of way.) I only read it because I took a Bronte course, and, yes, I think all three Brontes would be rather horrified by the conclusions that Meyer, in particular, took from their work...I think that was not what any of them intended.
Amy - Jul 11, 2009 6:23:40 pm PDT #9570 of 28611
Because books.
Hey, Holmes fans. Did Irene Adler marry Godfrey Norton in A Scandal in Bohemia? Is that canon?
Dana - Jul 11, 2009 6:24:54 pm PDT #9571 of 28611
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
If that's the guy's name, yeah. They definitely get married.
Amy - Jul 11, 2009 6:35:27 pm PDT #9572 of 28611
Because books.
Thanks, Dana!
erikaj - Jul 11, 2009 6:45:36 pm PDT #9573 of 28611
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Jilli-- My mom loved your book and wanted me to tell you that, but I forgot.
Barb - Jul 12, 2009 4:43:01 pm PDT #9574 of 28611
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, for FUCK'S SAKE, make it STOP, already!
A E Moorat's QUEEN VICTORIA: DEMON HUNTER, to Morrow, in a significant deal, by Jason Bartholomew at Hodder & Stoughton (US).
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2009 4:43:42 pm PDT #9575 of 28611
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
QUEEN VICTORIA: DEMON HUNTER
That's...fucked up.
Fay - Jul 12, 2009 5:06:30 pm PDT #9576 of 28611
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
So you're saying that you are not amused?
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2009 5:09:08 pm PDT #9577 of 28611
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Less amused, more bemused.