I just bought the book
Misfortune
yesterday by Wesley Stace.
Anybody here reading it? It looks like the kind of book Buffistas would read. "A fun book...full of orphans, decadence, flouncy skirts, greed, deception, amnesia, incest, murder and all manner of meditation on sexual identity...Like some inspired collaboration between Charles Dickens and Pedro Almodovar." - Washington Post.
Ooh! I haven't read it yet, but I have the sort-of-companion CD, Songs of Misfortune, by the Love Hall Tryst. It's awesome: murder ballads and doomed lovers galore. Want me to send you a couple tracks?
Big trouble in WBBville. I asked the BF what Peanuts character I would be and he said Lucy. LUCY!!! Because I'm "brave but can be a little bossy." I, outraged, responded "But she's crabby. Am I crabby? I don't think so. grumble crabby grumble Lucy grumble." When I asked him why he didn't see any Snoopy in me, he said, "Well, Snoopy is disloyal and runs off and leaves Charlie Brown a lot. And he steals; he takes Linus' blanket all the time. You are very loyal and honest." I never knew he had a hate on for Snoopy.
At least he instantly responded that I was Piglet when we discussed the Pooh universe.
Lucy is a badass. And she's the original strong female character.
I don't know enough Peanuts to really parse this conversation, I'm afraid.
Hec, when you're done with
Misfortune,
let me know what you think of it.
I'm pretty sure I'm a combination of Snoopy and Linus.
Hec, when you're done with Misfortune, let me know what you think of it.
Well, even just starting to read it I think you would love it, Jilli. It's your kind of world.