I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


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."


Toddson - Dec 18, 2012 8:22:56 am PST #20210 of 28564
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I think Theodore Sturgeon - or someone writing when he was - did something along those lines.

And with all the zombie stories around now, how would a zombie apocalypse affect Christian celebrations of the eucharist? transubstantiation and all that ....


EpicTangent - Dec 18, 2012 8:55:11 am PST #20211 of 28564
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I don't think it was Steph's, but I read a long Buffy/Spike that used that premise some time ago.


Atropa - Dec 18, 2012 9:05:41 am PST #20212 of 28564
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I think Theodore Sturgeon - or someone writing when he was - did something along those lines.

"Some of Your Blood".


EpicTangent - Dec 18, 2012 1:01:31 pm PST #20213 of 28564
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

One problem with Erin's notion - you'd have to keep them separate from each other. If everybody syncs up it defeats the purpose.


zuisa - Dec 20, 2012 9:13:13 am PST #20214 of 28564
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I woke up early this morning and couldn't fall back to sleep, so I started reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and I just finished it.

Fantastic.


Gris - Dec 20, 2012 1:19:13 pm PST #20215 of 28564
Hey. New board.

Isn't? What an unrealistic but totally awesome-to-read book!


smonster - Dec 25, 2012 6:20:53 pm PST #20216 of 28564
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Anyone read The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater? I just got it for Xmas. Apparently it's a YA and my parents heard the author interviewed on NPR.


Dana - Dec 25, 2012 6:26:50 pm PST #20217 of 28564
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I read "The Scorpio Races" by her, which I didn't love, but she can certainly write.


Kat - Dec 25, 2012 6:29:24 pm PST #20218 of 28564
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I liked Scorpio Races more than I thought I would. My students like The Raven Boys and I thought her werewolf books were good enough. Well, good enough to finish the first but not the rest.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2012 6:18:11 pm PST #20219 of 28564
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!

Does anyone remember an old ghost story/supernatural tale about a haunted deck chair on a steamship or ocean liner? I have a vague memory of reading one decades ago and it being wonderfully creepy, but can't recall the title or author.