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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."

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Kate P. - Jul 24, 2004 3:40:56 pm PDT #5301 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

P-C, that's very cool.

My favorite bookstore is having a cheapie-cheap used book sale this weekend, so I picked up 8 books for $12:

Sea-Cat and Dragon King, Angela Carter
In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot
My Father's Dragon, Ruth Gannett
Elmer and the Dragon, Ruth Gannett
The Dragons of Blueland, Ruth Gannett
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
Borderland, ed. Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold

The Angela Carter book was a real find; I'd never even heard of it before. It's a kids' picture book. And I was psyched to find a copy of Borderland too. Aren't there a bunch more Borderland anthologies out there? And doesn't Micole have a story in one of them? I think the one I got is the first one, but I'm not sure.

Jen - Jul 24, 2004 7:52:06 pm PDT #5302 of 10002

love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

My Father's Dragon, Ruth Gannett

This is one of my favorite books in the world. I have my Dad's old copy, and I cherish it.

Polter-Cow - Jul 24, 2004 8:01:26 pm PDT #5303 of 10002

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

Ooh, a classic. Ah, Turtle.

Kate P. - Jul 24, 2004 8:10:04 pm PDT #5304 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Jen, isn't it great? My dad read it to my brother and me when we were young.

And who doesn't love The Westing Game?

Hmm. Possibly I should finish one of the, um, nine books I'm currently in the middle of before starting another...

Atropa - Jul 24, 2004 8:18:32 pm PDT #5305 of 10002

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Aren't there a bunch more Borderland anthologies out there?

Yes, and a fantastic Borderland novel by Emma Bull.

And doesn't Micole have a story in one of them?

Really? Neat!

Trudy Booth - Jul 24, 2004 8:23:58 pm PDT #5306 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Jilli! Is it really reallly you?

Consuela - Jul 24, 2004 11:04:22 pm PDT #5307 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yes, and a fantastic Borderland novel by Emma Bull.

And two fun Borderland novels by Will Shetterly.

She does, Jilli, in the last one, The Essential Bordertown. It's quite good.

JohnSweden - Jul 25, 2004 7:12:02 am PDT #5308 of 10002

I can't even.

Aren't there a bunch more Borderland anthologies out there?

Love Borderland. (See Boyett ravings previous, his story was the scene setter in the first anthology).

She does, Jilli, in the last one, The Essential Bordertown. It's quite good.

How cool! And of course, I'm AFB, so I can't just go look to guess which one. But, I have google.

Bordertown

Kate P. - Jul 25, 2004 7:26:20 am PDT #5309 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Thanks for the link, JSw. Looks like I got the second anthology, not the first. Should I wait to read the first before starting the second, or does the order not matter so much?

Consuela - Jul 25, 2004 8:14:03 am PDT #5310 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The order doesn't matter so much, although some of the characters are repeated. Others aren't. I think you'll be fine.

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