Darn UPS. They left me a notice rather than a book.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
sumi - Aug 24, 2010 7:58:32 pm PDT #12199 of 28503
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Aug 24, 2010 8:01:11 pm PDT #12200 of 28503
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Darn UPS. They left me a notice rather than a book.
And yet they double park their trucks everywhere impeding my commute.
Bastards of Brown!
Polter-Cow - Aug 24, 2010 8:01:31 pm PDT #12201 of 28503
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The notice left you really depressed. You didn't hate it though.
Steph L. - Aug 25, 2010 11:53:21 am PDT #12202 of 28503
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh! Mockingjay is in at the library! WIN!
sumi - Aug 26, 2010 4:27:33 am PDT #12203 of 28503
Art Crawl!!!
Yesterday UPS didn't even make a second attempt and I had my signed notice on my door and everything. Fingers crossed that they bother to attempt to deliver today.
sumi - Aug 26, 2010 6:41:37 am PDT #12204 of 28503
Art Crawl!!!
John Hodgeman tweets that he is reading A Game of Thrones and somebody tells GRRM who posts it on his lj leading to this fun comment from a fan:
"Hi, I'm a Lannister."
"And I'm a Stark."
"I'm bloodthirsty and ruthless."
"And I'm noble and- AAAAIIIIGGH!"
Which I've spoiler fonted for ah, fairly non-specific spoilage.
Pix - Aug 26, 2010 7:39:44 pm PDT #12205 of 28503
The status is NOT quo.
OMG Hunger Games. I stayed up half the night earlier this week finishing it, and now I'm halfway through the second. So amazing!
megan walker - Aug 26, 2010 8:40:13 pm PDT #12206 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And, another one bites the dust...
Consuela - Aug 26, 2010 9:49:28 pm PDT #12207 of 28503
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I want to figure out how Collins makes so compulsively readable a book that has so. many. problems. Seriously: the world-building makes no sense, it's depressingly gender-essentialist and heteronormative, and the logistics are right out of fairy tales.
And yet I can't stop reading them because she's got the thriller pacing down so well!
If I could just nibble off that part of Collins brain, she could keep the rest. Want.
Steph L. - Aug 27, 2010 7:00:08 am PDT #12208 of 28503
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
First of all, I just got a library notice that Blameless is in for me to pick up. I didn't think it was even being released until Sept. 1. But I might drive up there and pick it up (I have the books sent to the library by my office, not home), since...
I stayed up until 3 a.m. finishing Mockingjay. I read it too fast, I know, but I wanted to know what happens. I'm a little okay with it, and a little angry. (Because, seriously? Prim?!? SERIOUSLY?!? God DAMN. That's Minear-esque. It just is.)
I'll say this: Suzanne Collins' method of telling rather than showing is at least more deft than Dan Brown's.