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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."

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Dani - Feb 12, 2004 4:27:19 pm PST #771 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers

That con happened in my home town so I remember it quite well. The local paper got a quote from Gaiman - he was quite amused by the whole thing, but pointed out that he was not the only one to have described such a scam in detail.

Scrappy, If I Were You is one of my favourite Aiken books. I love it because it reads like a combination of her Gothics with the Austen pastiches she also wrote. I think those who like Brat Farrar would also like it, it's another of the genre of "impostor becomes entwined in the life of a family" books.

I am going through books at an immense rate these days, having recovered my one-handed-reading-while-breastfeeding technique. I forgot how little else you do for the first few weeks. So far I've made my way through several junky paperbacks, The Reader , and two heavy volumes of nonfiction (a life of Cicero and a book on paleontology).

sj - Feb 12, 2004 5:47:03 pm PST #772 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Dani, what do you think of The Reader? I really enjoyed it when I read it.

Micole - Feb 12, 2004 6:26:16 pm PST #773 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

I adore If I Were You, and I don't think I've talked to more than one person before who'd even heard of it. It was the first of Aiken's romances I read, and I wasn't at all prepared for what she'd do to the conventions.

*beams at Scrappy and Dani, full of genial book-love*

scrappy - Feb 12, 2004 6:59:02 pm PST #774 of 10002
Nobody

*beams right back*

deborah grabien - Feb 12, 2004 8:24:37 pm PST #775 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Brat Farrar

Another Tey fan! My sister!

flea - Feb 13, 2004 2:58:16 am PST #776 of 10002
information libertarian

Deb, do not panic, but the other day in Movies sumi announced that they are making a movie of Brat Farrar. With - wait for it - Ben Affleck as Brat.

(sits eagerly waiting for Deb's explosion)

deborah grabien - Feb 13, 2004 6:35:39 am PST #777 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Ben AFFLECK?

the FUCK? What's the matter, Gwynneth Paltrow wasn't available???

Jebus.

Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:47:02 am PST #778 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, I'm reading this book The Dante Club, which is basically about Longfellow and them tracking down a serial killer who is taking inspiration from the Divine Comedy (apparently; I'm only half-way through). It's entertaining enough, in an RPF kind of way, but can I just say how confusing it is to be reading a mystery story with a main character named Holmes, but it's Oliver Wendell, not Sherlock? Very confusing. I keep thinking, "Wait! Holmes isn't short -- oh, right. Wendell. Short. Got it."

Vortex - Feb 13, 2004 7:56:15 am PST #779 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

heh. i felt the same way, jesse!

Jesse - Feb 13, 2004 7:59:36 am PST #780 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm also bitter that the author is younger than me, but I guess that just means it's time to realize that I'm not too young to have accomplished anything significant.

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