I am reading the most amazing book: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet It's really really jawdroppingly awesome as is the website. Anyone read it?
(P.S. this is a perfect gift for a certain globehopping buffista)
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'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."
Kat - Jul 29, 2009 5:43:56 pm PDT #9724 of 28393
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 8:56:15 am PDT #9725 of 28393
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, this is freakin' awesome! The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is devoted to vampires and they have a series of little interviews and short essays by many of the contemporary authors.
Stephenie Meyer: "In 2007, as Twilight propelled her from a surprise YA bestseller to a multigenerational superstar, she admitted to EW that she had never read Bram Stoker's Dracula. Reading other people's vampire stories made her too "neurotic," she explained. As a Mormon, Meyer doesn't watch R-rated movies, so that eliminated a whole other swatch of the canon. (She has seen bits of Interview With the Vampire and The Lost Boys on late-night TV. Her respective reviews "Yuck!" and "Creepy!")
Way to use that English Lit vocab, babe.
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer has come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
REALLY? Then again, she's never had much of a kissing relationship with reality anyhow...
Charlaine Harris' essay is absolutely as charming as she is and Anne Rice is in surprisingly good form. Not too mad at all. At least, not when compared to Laurell and Stephenie.
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 8:57:47 am PDT #9726 of 28393
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Not too mad at all. At least, not when compared to Laurell and Stephenie.
Way to set the bar looooooow.
Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2009 9:13:20 am PDT #9727 of 28393
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer as come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2009 9:14:45 am PDT #9728 of 28393
Always Anti-fascist!
"Jeez, Bobby, why not just compare her to the monkeys in the zoo?" (Sorry...that KOTH was just on.) Stephenie Meyer always comes off like she is in 13 Going on Thirty or something. Except I like Jennifer Garner and think Meyer is a moron. But that would explain a. her grasp of teens and 2. Her complete and total inability to get quoted with anything intelligent...every time she opens her mouth, Shauna dies, just a little bit more.(Because I've decided...all publicists are Jersey girls named Shauna now.) And she never gets used to how Meyer flinches when she says "Jesus Christ!"
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 9:15:12 am PDT #9729 of 28393
“Not dead yet!”
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
Let's put it this way. Everyone's laughing at her.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2009 9:19:13 am PDT #9730 of 28393
Always Anti-fascist!
Including dead people. Which seems oddly appropriate. I could never pull this off...nobody claims to "pioneer" crime fiction cause the people that write it are so good with guns. IJS.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 31, 2009 9:20:49 am PDT #9731 of 28393
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
OK, the fact that Stephanie Meyers is Mormon explains A LOT.
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 9:21:56 am PDT #9732 of 28393
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
nobody claims to "pioneer" crime fiction cause the people that write it are so good with guns. IJS.
*sporfle*
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 9:22:16 am PDT #9733 of 28393
“Not dead yet!”
Way to set the bar looooooow.
Well, come on-- Anne did have some batshit craxy moments for a while there. These days she's coming off as thoughtful and measured in her responses.