I just had a convo about The Giver and how I have read it, but how unimpressed I am by it.
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."
Kat - Mar 28, 2014 7:53:18 am PDT #22239 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan walker - Mar 28, 2014 4:30:39 pm PDT #22240 of 28769
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just had a convo about The Giver and how I have read it, but how unimpressed I am by it.
In this, we are one.
flea - Apr 08, 2014 4:48:04 am PDT #22241 of 28769
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Literary buffistas, especially YA readers, may I recommend The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer ( [link] )? Okay, I haven't read it yet, but the author is the oldest of 8 children, the youngest of whom is a classmate of Casper, and their dad is her soccer coach. Kate's website is adorable ( [link] - she posts about punctuation ) and she gave a reading at the kids' school last fall and Casper loved it, and there's a hamster named Baconnaise in the book, and it's gotten really strong reviews for a first novel, and we're going to the launch party tonight, and you should check it out because I suspect it is very good. The end.
sumi - Apr 08, 2014 7:01:47 am PDT #22242 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Mysteries with Ulysses Grant as the detective.
hippocampus - Apr 08, 2014 10:26:48 am PDT #22243 of 28769
not your mom's socks.
A storytelling game kickstarter: [link] with some familiar names already and more to come.
flea - Apr 08, 2014 3:39:43 pm PDT #22244 of 28769
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Correction: the rodent named Baconnaise is a gerbil, not a hamster. I have read the first 15 pages of the Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy and it is very witty and funny, and I didn't even get bothered at all that it's first-person narrator, which normally I hate.
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2014 4:21:59 pm PDT #22245 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
I put it on hold at the library based solely on your recommendation.
And, okay, a rodent named Baconnaise.
flea - Apr 09, 2014 4:57:02 am PDT #22246 of 28769
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The family adopted a dog pre-named Pickles 20 years ago, and decided to name all their pets after condiments from that point forward. Their golden retriever is named Honey Mustard.
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2014 6:25:04 pm PDT #22247 of 28769
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished The Giver ! It was...okay.
sumi - Apr 10, 2014 6:16:47 am PDT #22248 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Inn at the Crossroads recipe for Lord Manderly's pie.
Come to think of it: do the Inn at the Cross Roads recipes count as fan fiction?