An extensive list compiled on a community of painters (starts at post #8)
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
DavidS - Oct 10, 2011 7:50:40 pm PDT #16592 of 28596
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - Oct 10, 2011 7:54:05 pm PDT #16593 of 28596
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For art: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. Which is mostly about the art scene in Paris between 1910 and 1930. Kind of a ridiculous amount of name-dropping in this.
For frontiers: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner. Simply fantastic, and about as important as Turner's essay.
beth b - Oct 10, 2011 8:00:26 pm PDT #16594 of 28596
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I like lust for life.
I read it before I ever saw a Van Gogh -- so I loved his paintings before i saw them ( I read it in high school )
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:02:57 pm PDT #16595 of 28596
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?
That is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:04:10 pm PDT #16596 of 28596
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Movie tie-ins are actually great because we have a film critic among us.
megan walker - Oct 10, 2011 8:23:41 pm PDT #16597 of 28596
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Wow, ask and you shall receive!
The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
Hah! I'm reading TFLW this month for our 19th-century England salon ("What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew").
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
We read this for the short-lived Buffista book club, didn't we? I remember thinking I would never have picked it up otherwise, but I really liked it.
Sue - Oct 11, 2011 3:29:20 am PDT #16598 of 28596
hip deep in pie
Are we looking at fiction or non-fiction. For NF my vote would be "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" by Lawrence Weschler.
Kathy A - Oct 11, 2011 4:33:27 am PDT #16599 of 28596
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Isn't this a book? I think I have it on my history bookshelves.
Ginger - Oct 11, 2011 5:44:25 am PDT #16600 of 28596
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
On the art theme, Song of the Lark. Willa Cather is the answer to many things.
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2011 6:01:36 am PDT #16601 of 28596
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Like insomnia! Ooh, burn.