Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'

Buffy ,'Help'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Amy - Mar 01, 2015 6:58:10 pm PST #21016 of 30000
Because books.

I have no idea why, but almost every single pair of shoes I had (or at least the ones I actually wore) were slightly too big after chemo.

That is weird!


Lee - Mar 01, 2015 7:00:00 pm PST #21017 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

It was, yes!

I need to download 5 or 6 books for vacation reading. Anyone have any recommendations?


Amy - Mar 01, 2015 7:31:56 pm PST #21018 of 30000
Because books.

Either of Gillian Flynn's earlier two books, Dark Places and Sharp Objects. I loved the last two Alice Hoffman novels I read, The Red Garden and The Story SIsters.


aurelia - Mar 01, 2015 7:33:10 pm PST #21019 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Shall I recommend a different one here than on FB? The Eyre Affair.


Consuela - Mar 01, 2015 7:33:33 pm PST #21020 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a cute episodic novel heavily influenced by Firefly. Except with more aliens. And more sex. And alien sex. It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it's a nice lightweight novel, and it's pretty cheap.

Sherwood Smith's Rondo Allegro is a fun drama/romance set during the Napoleonic wars in France, Spain and England. There is a marriage of convenience, and lots of opera, and battles at sea, and evil in-laws, and so forth. I really enjoyed it.

The Martian by Andy Weir is basically Apollo 13 set now, on Mars: an American astronaut gets stranded on Mars and has to figure out how to survive while folks on Earth slowly realize he's not dead. It's hella fun, although a bit heavy on the science.


Lee - Mar 01, 2015 7:35:25 pm PST #21021 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

All of those sound great!

I think alien sex may be the winner though


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 01, 2015 7:37:14 pm PST #21022 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'm currently reading London Under by Peter Ackroyd and it's a pretty interesting read so far. [link]


meara - Mar 01, 2015 8:23:26 pm PST #21023 of 30000

I quite enjoyed The Martian!!


Consuela - Mar 01, 2015 8:38:10 pm PST #21024 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I quite enjoyed The Martian

You know they're making a movie? Which surprises me not at all, since it really is so very cinematic. I just hope they cast someone who can do comedy as the guy (I forget his name), because you really need some humor for a lot of that.


Liese S. - Mar 01, 2015 10:39:04 pm PST #21025 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oooh, oscilloscope. #missingthepoint