The branch library I worked at in the early 1990s had been converted (it was the town's Masonic Hall). One of the major things they did to the building was to reinforce the floors for the weight of the books and shelves.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'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."
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2009 1:11:42 pm PDT #9783 of 28388
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kat - Aug 03, 2009 9:24:24 pm PDT #9784 of 28388
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Just finished Steig Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire. I'm jonesing to talk about it. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
DawnK - Aug 04, 2009 7:56:38 am PDT #9785 of 28388
giraffe mode
Oh Kat, I just started it. I'll try and read fast! Probably won't help especially since I'm limited to my 40 minute lunch hour and it will be weeks before I'm finished. Stupid job. I blew through 2 books while we were on our cruise to Mexico just a scant 2 weeks ago. Oh and thank you all for the rec of Gil's All Fright Diner very cute read.
meara - Aug 04, 2009 8:56:30 am PDT #9786 of 28388
Kat, I read MOST of it at Barnes and Noble the other night, but not ALL of it...so, I have to finish it! :)
erin_obscure - Aug 04, 2009 11:12:15 am PDT #9787 of 28388
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ooooh, got more Octavia Butler on CD just in time for driving to Canada. Score!
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2009 4:13:12 pm PDT #9788 of 28388
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What did you get?
StuntHusband - Aug 04, 2009 5:12:15 pm PDT #9789 of 28388
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2009 5:29:01 pm PDT #9790 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As another instance of similarities, Williams pointed out that characters in both books call their wives "love."
How convincing!
Pix - Aug 04, 2009 8:02:45 pm PDT #9791 of 28388
The status is NOT quo.
Seriously? I'm not much of a Meyers fan, but that's ridiculous.
erikaj - Aug 04, 2009 8:10:20 pm PDT #9792 of 28388
Always Anti-fascist!
Personally? Any time she spends taking depositions or seeing a lawyer she's not writing or talking to the press. Lawsuit Chick FTW. Even though she'll probably lose. (Yes, I really have that special Coultergeist feeling for Ms. Meyer. And when I first read that article, I thought Meyer was facing a suit like John Fogerty did, for self-plagiarism.) Fogerty ultimately did not get a judgment for that, but I've sort of thought he was pathetic since.