(Plonks self down in the Vanilla Buffista area next to Consuela. Eyes others suspiciously for signs of inappropriate romantic behavior.)
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
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."
Katerina Bee - Feb 09, 2004 2:02:08 pm PST #742 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Consuela - Feb 09, 2004 2:11:43 pm PST #743 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thank you Buffistas for validating me! Even Micole, since you said you are mildly fond of it, which is better (for me) than saying it's the best thing since the invention of creme brulee, or something. Since you have such good taste in things I'd hate to really dislike something you loved.
And I'll try to send it off, just, um, you know me and shipping things, right? It may take a while.
It'll be a very late birthday gift. Speaking of which, Happy Belated Birthday!!
Betsy HP - Feb 09, 2004 3:07:53 pm PST #744 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
t begins casting flirtatious looks at Consuela in order to confuse Katerina
Micole - Feb 09, 2004 5:33:00 pm PST #745 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Carey's next project is the "Banewalker duology" and the one after that is the "Imriel trilogy" (set in the same world as the Kushiel books). I don't think she's planning to do standalone novels anytime soon, and I don't think it would actually benefit her artistically to do so -- she's clearly interested in a broad canvas. I just think she needs to get better at depth of world-building to match the expanse of her rather picaresque epic plotting.
And thank you, Suela! No rush.
meara - Feb 09, 2004 6:23:05 pm PST #746 of 10002
So, I bought the new LKH Merry Gentry novel, because I really needed a wallow.
Is this a third one, Betsy? Huh. Didn't know it was out. Maybe I'll hit the B&N and spend some time reading, one of these evenings...
deborah grabien - Feb 09, 2004 7:57:47 pm PST #747 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Rhiannon, thank you, ma'am; it's been enough of a cruncher these past couple of weeks to where I'm now drowning myself in an orgy of Simenon. Lots and lots of 1950s Paris. Yes indeed. And psychological why-done-it stories.
I know I'm not happy when my bedtime reading starts out with "Maigret and the Killers" and progresses to Nicholas Blake's "The Beast Must Die" and pauses for Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House." All superb books, none of them bedtime material, unless you sleep on a bed of nails and wear hair shirt pajamas.
Oy.
I am not in the least vanilla, but I am now and likely will be forever unable to participate in Kushiel discussions.
Nilly - Feb 09, 2004 10:56:18 pm PST #748 of 10002
Swouncing
Micole, belated birthday wishes (it's not in the Buffista Calendar). May it be a wonderful year with lots of great books in it.
Micole - Feb 10, 2004 2:49:11 am PST #749 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Thanks, Nilly! (And if you're still doing the calendar, feel free to add me.)
Katerina Bee - Feb 10, 2004 7:49:13 am PST #750 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
???
Has vapors, presses violet sachet to face. Rolls eyes heavenward, thinks of England.
Jesse - Feb 10, 2004 8:22:06 am PST #751 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, if any of y'all are Lawrence Block fans, he's about to head off on a huge book tour, including lots of talks at public libraries. The schedule is here