Connie's vapours are mine.
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
brenda m - Aug 12, 2004 12:22:03 pm PDT #5599 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ginger - Aug 12, 2004 12:23:10 pm PDT #5600 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not sure if "took to her bed" is a Southernism or left over from my excessive reading of trashy 19th century novels. As Heather says, it means someone who, without a definable ailment, just stays in bed.
Connie Neil - Aug 12, 2004 12:49:55 pm PDT #5601 of 10002
brillig
Connie's vapours are mine.
Bring Your Own Fan.
JoeCrow - Aug 12, 2004 3:51:02 pm PDT #5602 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
This was before I hit the page that was like Melrose Place with the Cthulhu Cyle Deities cast in the principal roles, mind you. Bleargh.
Dude, that's nothing. In the end, the humans win. No, really. They defeat Yog-Sothoth and everything. WTF is THAT about?
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2004 11:12:49 am PDT #5603 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
(from amchau) Rowling divulges tidbits from HP6.
flea - Aug 15, 2004 2:48:01 pm PDT #5604 of 10002
information libertarian
Nobel prizewinning poet Czeslaw Milosz died this weekend. Obituary in the NYT, no doubt also elsewhere.
Alicia K - Aug 16, 2004 10:35:15 am PDT #5605 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I've just picked up Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. So far, am very sucked in. Has this one been discussed before? Does this one crop up on people's favorites when discussing Atwood?
sumi - Aug 17, 2004 5:28:07 am PDT #5606 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Wizard News reports that there is an excerpt from HP+theHBP on the JK Rowling website.
Kat - Aug 17, 2004 5:34:39 am PDT #5607 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have to admit, I'm a big fan of titles from Red Dress Ink (or something like that.. owned by Harlequin). But there's a NYT piece on how newer chicklit is causing a decline in more traditional romances.
Betsy HP - Aug 17, 2004 7:13:23 am PDT #5608 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
That's a weird choice of emphasis. Harlequin does not equal the entire field of romance. Harlequin is the most formulaic publisher, the one everybody sneers at, the one that lurches from cowboys to vampires to unexpected babies to SEALs depending on market trends. (Good writers have written Harlequins, just as good writers have written everything from porn to How to Fix Your Car.)
Saying that Harlequin's sales as a whole are down does not say much about the industry. It'd be like saying that people are eating less because McDonalds' sales are slumping.
[Ah.
The real growth in romance is in a sector in which Harlequin is less strong, referred to as the single-title business. Those books typically sell heavily in hardcover as well as paperback. Because they are not part of a series, sales of single titles depend more on the author's name than on the publisher's.
Bingo.]