justkim -- that's the article that started this all off.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 4:16:49 pm PST #6840 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
justkim - Jan 07, 2005 7:15:40 pm PST #6841 of 10002
Another social casualty...
Well, that's what I get for
paying attention
skipping and skimming. As I said, it was in my paper today.
Nevermind.
brenda m - Jan 08, 2005 1:30:44 pm PST #6842 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
As of a few days ago, at least, I know there were Buffistas out there intending to donate to tsunami relief but not yet sure where to direct their contribution. May I offer a suggestion, by way of a librarian friend who spent six months in Sri Lanka about two years ago setting up a community library:
Sri Lankan Libraries Need Urgent Assistance
Kate P. - Jan 08, 2005 7:29:17 pm PST #6843 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
As I said, it was in my paper today.
justkim, thanks for linking to the article. I don't remember if it was linked upthread, but I hadn't read it yet.
Lilty Cash - Jan 09, 2005 3:35:36 pm PST #6844 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Today I picked up Three Junes. Has anyone read it?
Jesse - Jan 09, 2005 3:54:43 pm PST #6845 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have not, but a friend of mine did, and said the first one was just wonderful, and the second two were to make it book-length, basically.
Polter-Cow - Jan 12, 2005 2:41:29 am PST #6846 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I read Dry and Magical Thinking over break, and I am now on the Augusten Burroughs love train. He kind of reminds me of myself, if I were an alcoholic gay advertising copywriter in New York. I need to get my hands on Running with Scissors.
Volans - Jan 12, 2005 5:22:32 am PST #6847 of 10002
move out and draw fire
So....if you get someone a book as a gift, and then you just sort of happen to read some of the book, maybe the intro and the first chapter, you should just keep that copy and get them a new one, right?
sarameg - Jan 12, 2005 5:25:55 am PST #6848 of 10002
Or you do what my family does and read it really quickly, finishing it just in time to wrap it and hand it to them. Unless, of course, you want your own copy.
Mom spent the week before christmas sneaking around trying to finish a book she got for dad without him seeing it.
Ginger - Jan 12, 2005 5:27:18 am PST #6849 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
you should just keep that copy and get them a new one, right?
Heavens, no. You continue to read it carefully and when you finish, you wrap it up. If it was really good, buy yourself the paperback. The rule is that you only have to buy a new book if you spill something on the old book.