Read Mira Grant's Parasite...
Envy.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
dcp - Jun 23, 2013 11:19:01 am PDT #20907 of 28627
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Strix - Jun 23, 2013 11:34:05 am PDT #20908 of 28627
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oooh, you have the BEST scoop, P-C!
dcp, I'm PRETTY sure Parasite is an auto-read on NetGalley. Lots of ARCs there you have to request; sometimes you're approved, sometimes not.
You can give it a try:
ETA: But be sure to buy it when it comes out! Support your authors!
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2013 1:14:09 pm PDT #20909 of 28627
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
megan walker - Jun 24, 2013 2:10:48 pm PDT #20910 of 28627
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Coming up with new book salon ideas and wondered about doing something with books that riff on classics.
Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea and Dr. Jeckyll.../Mary Reilly would be examples of ones more in the fan fiction vein, but I'm also thinking about books where a particular classic is a big plot point.
This is mostly because I want an excuse to read Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine.
Ideas?
Pix - Jun 24, 2013 2:15:26 pm PDT #20911 of 28627
The status is NOT quo.
WSS as fan fiction? Really? I teach it as a postmodern classic.
megan walker - Jun 24, 2013 2:16:46 pm PDT #20912 of 28627
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I meant in that it uses characters created by someone else.
ETA: Whereas Treasure Island!!! is a novel about someone obsessed with the book Treasure Island, not a story about some of its characters.
Dana - Jun 24, 2013 2:19:55 pm PDT #20913 of 28627
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
There's "Death Comes to Pemberly", but I didn't think it was very good.
Lev Grossman's Magician series, which are riffs on Narnia?
Connie Willis' Doomsday Book?
Dana - Jun 24, 2013 2:22:41 pm PDT #20914 of 28627
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Josephine Tey's "The Daughter of Time" is about Richard III, but I don't remember if it's about the play specifically, or just the history.
Dana - Jun 24, 2013 2:25:53 pm PDT #20915 of 28627
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
And there's something like A.S. Byatt's Possession, but that's about fictional authors, not real ones.
Jessica - Jun 24, 2013 2:27:58 pm PDT #20916 of 28627
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm also thinking about books where a particular classic is a big plot point.
I haven't read it, but from what I know, Among Others might qualify.