Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.

'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Stephanie - Mar 04, 2009 4:31:18 am PST #2563 of 30000
Trust my rage

Yeah I'm mostly thnking about recent stuff. It seems like we talk a lot of books here but of course I remember nothing now.


Amy - Mar 04, 2009 4:35:03 am PST #2564 of 30000
Because books.

It's hard to rec when I'm not sure what kinds of books you like, Stephanie. I'm reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghost right now and LOVING it -- it's short stories, and it's not all horror, it's more a combination of horror and fantastic fiction, and every story so far has just been fabulous. A couple of them really melancholy, rather than scary, and very sharply written.

Or you could give Coraline or The Graveyard Book a try, and get on the Neil Gaiman train.

For not-horror, not-genre, I'd also recommend The Time-Traveler's Wife, and I think you'd also like Jodi Picoult -- a couple of her books have protagonists that are either lawyers or the plot has something to do with the law. Sort of thinky women's fiction. I loved Plain Truth and My Sister's Keeper (although the last made me sob).


Fay - Mar 04, 2009 4:38:05 am PST #2565 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I'd second (well, third) The Time Traveller's Wife, and I'd also rec Cloud Atlas and The End of Mr Y. And Lost in a Good Book.


DCJensen - Mar 04, 2009 5:13:35 am PST #2566 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Windsparrow and I finally bought and read Rock and Roll Never Forgets by some woman named Deborah Grabien. It was pretty good.

Now I get to go to the office and wear shirt and tie for the dog and pony show for our biggest corporate customers.


Nora Deirdre - Mar 04, 2009 5:16:06 am PST #2567 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I am off to staffing services to talk about potential positions for me at the institute. Hope that goes well... I'm wearing a suit and mascara and everything!


DCJensen - Mar 04, 2009 5:20:08 am PST #2568 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Damn, I forgot the mascara.


Calli - Mar 04, 2009 5:24:45 am PST #2569 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Damn, I forgot the mascara.

So did I, Daniel.


Cashmere - Mar 04, 2009 5:26:20 am PST #2570 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Stephanie, I just read Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell--I highly recommend them both.


tommyrot - Mar 04, 2009 5:40:53 am PST #2571 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I might get myself a Kindle just for environmental reasons.

That's my rationalization, and I'm sticking to it.


Emily - Mar 04, 2009 5:42:48 am PST #2572 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

In a week, I'll have to resort to lesson planning. Gasp.

No, Erin, anything but that!