I never heard of her, but I'm sure somebody here has. Bestselling author Iris Chang has died: [link]
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
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."
Wolfram - Nov 11, 2004 11:49:36 am PST #6298 of 10002
Visilurking
DavidS - Nov 11, 2004 12:18:12 pm PST #6299 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I never heard of her, but I'm sure somebody here has. Bestselling author Iris Chang has died.
I was shocked by that news. When her book The Rape Of Nanking came out, there was a great deal of publicity about it in the Bay Area. Both for the book, and the historical event - which had gone surprisingly under reported in the west. Hers was the first book on the subject. Anyway, it looks like it was a suicide. With a shotgun, no less.
Aims - Nov 11, 2004 12:19:37 pm PST #6300 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
HOLY FUCK!
brenda m - Nov 11, 2004 12:31:48 pm PST #6301 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
Wow. That was a stunning book. I'm really sorry to hear about that.
Fred Pete - Nov 11, 2004 12:54:55 pm PST #6302 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Wow. That was a stunning book. I'm really sorry to hear about that.
'Cause I feel the same way.
Volans - Nov 12, 2004 2:42:38 am PST #6303 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Oh man...(goes off to find news articles on Iris Chang's death in sea of articles on Arafat's).
Nobody remembers the purple states.
Oddly, I just received a graphic of the purple states.
Allyson - Nov 12, 2004 9:29:13 am PST #6304 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hey all, if you wouldn't mind distributing this to your lists...
This is the book signing/book release party for Suz Brockmann Maya and I have been planning.
Betsy HP - Nov 12, 2004 10:24:47 am PST #6305 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I realized in the elevator that I've been in three book-oriented fandoms. That is to say, I joined dedicated mailing lists to discuss these books; I never wrote (or considered writing) fanfic. (Okay, there was that one Patrick O'Brian zombie piece, but that was for Consuela.)
So. I was on a Dorothy Dunnett mailing list, a Patrick O'Brian mailing list, and right now I'm on the Jennifer Crusie mailing list. The first two wrote long twisty insanely complicated series, and it helped to have other fans explain to you what exactly catharpings were and how a hackbut differed from a sackbut. The Jennifer Crusie thing I fell into; I found the books, joined the list, discovered that JC herself posted there, and was hooked. (She's a very kind woman. I'm pretty much inactive there because it's become so high-volume.)
What about y'all? What did you become so obsessive about that you needed help obsessing?
billytea - Nov 12, 2004 10:40:13 am PST #6306 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What about y'all? What did you become so obsessive about that you needed help obsessing?
You mean, aside from Buffy?
Hmm.
Doctor Who. Board games. Freak-Ass Christianity. Calligraphy. Astrology. Dungeons & Dragons. Evolution. Animals generally. Religion generally. Origami. Dungeons & Dragons, v3.5. Ancient history. Card games. Public speaking. Public housing. Wittgenstein. Dungeons & Dragons miniatures. Rugby league. Diplomacy. Debating. Photography.
Wait. When you say help obsessing, do you mean like enabling, or "Dude, you need help"?
Kate P. - Nov 12, 2004 10:45:32 am PST #6307 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hmm. My various participatory fandoms have included The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The X-Files, Ani Difranco, The Nields, Dar Williams, the Jossverse(s), and then the whole fandom morass that I've been sucked into over the past few years, of which the highlights are probably LOTR (book and movies), Smallville slash, and now Lost. I think I was briefly part of a couple more folk-fan lists, but I can't even remember which ones they might have been.
ETA: Only one book on the list, and even then, the emphasis (in my little corner of fandom) was on the movies.