the young werewolf who will occasionally call Anita an idiot to her face.
Jason? I liked him.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Calli - Apr 20, 2005 9:59:26 am PDT #7432 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lyra Jane - Apr 20, 2005 12:05:42 pm PDT #7433 of 10002
Up with the sun
Is the latest Merry book the third, or has she turned out a fourth one? I flipped through the third one in a bookstore and noticed that it was 90 percent boring sex, so i didn't buy it.
meara - Apr 20, 2005 4:23:54 pm PDT #7434 of 10002
Heh. I noticed that new Merry book out in the bookstore the other day and picked it up....and put it back down. Glad to hear it was the right thing to do! :)
My fave used bookstore in the DC area is in Gaithersburg--one of those "it's cramped and crowded and you keep going around a corner and finding out that there's a whole other room!"
Strega - Apr 20, 2005 9:14:17 pm PDT #7435 of 10002
The Book Alcove!
Er, I assume? Because if there's another one out here, I need to know about it immediately.
Sheryl - Apr 21, 2005 3:18:31 am PDT #7436 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Heh...the Book Alcove is very close to where I live. It's cool, and I've wandered around there a few times.
meara - Apr 21, 2005 6:12:33 pm PDT #7437 of 10002
Yeah, Book Alcove. Sorry--when I was writing that, I'd forgotten the name! I figured saying "tucked behind the pho place, and they build bookshelves" probably wasn't needed.
Is it just me, or are there fewer used bookstores than there used to be, though?
Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2005 7:58:08 pm PDT #7438 of 10002
brillig
Interesting article
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oprah, save us, we can't get by without you.
That's the message from a group of published and award-winning novelists in an open letter to influential television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, begging her to resume picking new novels for members of her popular book club.
"There's a widely-held belief that the landscape of literary fiction is now a gloomy place," Word of Mouth, a loose alliance of women's authors, wrote. It said fiction sales began to plummet when the The Oprah Winfrey Book Club went off the air in 2002 and stopped featuring contemporary authors.
So, is Oprah the savior of modern fiction?
erikaj - Apr 21, 2005 8:02:42 pm PDT #7439 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I used to love those shows though...another reason to hate that Franzen geek, though his mean-spirited and aimless fiction is way reason enough. How do I feel, right?
Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2005 8:07:01 pm PDT #7440 of 10002
brillig
Franzen? I don't do Oprah, so I'm unfamiliar with how her club works.
Lyra Jane - Apr 22, 2005 5:51:37 am PDT #7441 of 10002
Up with the sun
Connie, Jonathan Franzen is a moderately talented writer of literary fiction who bitched when his novel was picked for the Oprah book club because he doesn't see himself as an Oprah kind of writer. She suspended the club the next month.
The thing is, though, Oprah should have been able to blow Franzen off like a gnat, both because she's infinite times more famous and because public opinion was on her side. I suspect she was looking for an excuse to quit the club anyhow, and he provided one.