Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good  

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."


amych - Dec 19, 2003 6:29:54 am PST #268 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I know Faulkner! Coolness!


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2003 7:10:31 am PST #269 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I started reading Please Don't Kill the Freshman last night, and I'm of 2 minds about it.

One is that, given my background, my growing up in what was -- honestly -- the country, attending a Catholic grade school and then a Catholic all-girls' high school, I ended up very sheltered and naive. And so I'm enthralled with this high-school freshman who is aware of her sexuality, who has close male friends, who is just so much more worldly than I was. (And I realize there were probably plenty of girls like that at my high school, but, as I said, it wasn't my own experience.)

The other reaction I'm having, though, is that Zoe Trope seems awfully over-wrought and pretentious. And I'm trying to remember if that's what high school was like for me. I think it was, and I respect that as part of growing up, but as a 32-year-old, it's kind of irritating to read.


Kat - Dec 19, 2003 7:27:13 am PST #270 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The other reaction I'm having, though, is that Zoe Trope seems awfully over-wrought and pretentious. And I'm trying to remember if that's what high school was like for me. I think it was, and I respect that as part of growing up, but as a 32-year-old, it's kind of irritating to read.

I cannot agree more here. I read it and was so off-put by the whole book that I wanted to just shake her and say, "GROW UP." But then again, she's doing what you do at that age.

Oh, my. Who was present? I'm a r'ville regular, but not in the YA topics.

I can't remember. It was probably six months ago. I meant to mention it at the time, and then promptly forgot. Cause my brain, she is a seive.


Jess M. - Dec 19, 2003 7:49:35 am PST #271 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

Revisiting the kids' books theme from last week, I went out this week to buy books as gifts. For a 10 year old boy, I got the Westing Game, Silent to the Bone, and the first book in the Dark Is Rising series. For an 8 year old girl I got Harriet the Spy, Ballet Shoes, and Ella Enchanted. I hope they like them (I don't know these kids at all, just their ages). I'm really excited about the books!


Strix - Dec 19, 2003 9:49:09 am PST #272 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

HA! Deb, they have Plainsong, Eyes in the Fire, Fire Queen AND they have Weaver on order !

Go YOU!

WEIRDNESS: PLainsong is at PArk University, as a children's book. How bizarre.

Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?


§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:19:46 am PST #273 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That might be the same mixup Kat was talking about in Kat "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" Dec 18, 2003 4:37:10 pm PST, Erin.


Vortex - Dec 19, 2003 10:19:59 am PST #274 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?

I don't think so (as in I've read it and don't think it's for children), but wasn't someone saying that there was another Plainsong that was a children's book?

ETA: seconds behind! Seconds!


§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:22:38 am PST #275 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.


DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 10:23:49 am PST #276 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.

I think you could probably out-Vortex Nilly too, if you had a mind.


§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:25:00 am PST #277 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But then I'd feel bad.