Wait till you get to the end.
I was getting choked up in preparation for the end.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Jan 31, 2013 1:57:23 pm PST #20364 of 28564
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Liese S. - Feb 02, 2013 6:59:08 am PST #20365 of 28564
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Okay, I need some hivemind help. Elie Wiesel (I think!) has a quote about writing poetry that I want to reference. It's something about how poetry comes from suffering and then people tell the poet, oh, suffer again, so we can hear the exquisite sounds of your groans.
Something like that. But much better. Can anyone find it for me? My google-fu is failing.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2013 8:48:02 am PST #20366 of 28564
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Check it out: Knut (remember Knut?) has a new book coming out -- it's a serial for the Kindle: [link] (That's a link to his LJ; I don't know if that post is readable to everyone, so here's the Amazon page: [link]
DavidS - Feb 04, 2013 8:58:03 am PST #20367 of 28564
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love that it looks like a mashup of Community and Hogwarts.
le nubian - Feb 04, 2013 10:21:52 am PST #20368 of 28564
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Has anyone read "Fated" (an Alex Versus novel)? I'm in the middle of it right now and I think it is scratching a particular itch for me. I'm enjoying it, though I'm a bit lost in the world-building.
EpicTangent - Feb 05, 2013 12:06:58 pm PST #20369 of 28564
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Check it out: Knut (remember Knut?) has a new book coming out
Sounds like an interesting premise, and I really enjoyed his Superpowers.
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Sue - Feb 05, 2013 4:29:49 pm PST #20370 of 28564
hip deep in pie
Are you all able to preorder Knut's book. I am getting not yet available, and I wondered if I was geoblocked.
Amy - Feb 08, 2013 5:31:33 am PST #20371 of 28564
Because books.
Deal in today's Publishers Lunch:
Author of the #1 NYT bestselling FALLEN series, Lauren Kate's TEARDROP trilogy, about a 17-year old Louisiana girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.
That's ... a lot of tears, I would think.
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2013 6:05:22 am PST #20372 of 28564
not your mom's socks.
Goodness me, yes.
Consuela - Feb 08, 2013 6:08:58 am PST #20373 of 28564
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.
And it's a TRILOGY.
Dude, I really do have to get cracking on my writing.