Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


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."


DebetEsse - Aug 19, 2013 9:29:45 am PDT #21269 of 28564
Woe to the fucking wicked.

t looks at Amazon

Interesting.


Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 9:55:04 am PDT #21270 of 28564
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Her Crosswicks journals are beautifully written, and The Summer of the Great Grandmother is a thoughtful look at aging and dealing with an independent relative who is becoming dependent. Her novel A Severed Wasp also deals with aging.

Another possibility would be M.F.K. Fisher's collection Sister Age. >[link]


Sophia Brooks - Aug 19, 2013 10:41:08 am PDT #21271 of 28564
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.


meara - Aug 19, 2013 10:47:11 am PDT #21272 of 28564

One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.


erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:09:25 am PDT #21273 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.


Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2013 5:18:11 am PDT #21274 of 28564
hwæt

RIP Elmore Leonard.


erikaj - Aug 20, 2013 5:28:22 am PDT #21275 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)


DavidS - Aug 20, 2013 5:31:35 am PDT #21276 of 28564
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For as much effect as Leonard had on crime fiction and westerns and movies, his effect on science fiction is also notable. Wm. Gibson didn't really know how to plot out a full novel, so he just copied the structure of an Elmore Leonard book.


Jesse - Aug 20, 2013 5:39:17 am PDT #21277 of 28564
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

RIP


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 20, 2013 6:03:58 am PDT #21278 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!

Thanks for giving us Jackie Brown, Mr. Leonard.