Nevermind. I am a moron. I googled "sisters running candy London Great Plague" and it popped right up: [link]
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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 - Oct 01, 2009 5:49:26 pm PDT #10141 of 28379
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Toddson - Oct 02, 2009 4:13:09 am PDT #10142 of 28379
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Were we aware of this? (especially Jilli)
beth b - Oct 02, 2009 1:40:04 pm PDT #10143 of 28379
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I've been playing with the soulless Victorian -- and I realized I don't know enough about Victorian undergarments
Atropa - Oct 02, 2009 4:18:24 pm PDT #10144 of 28379
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Were we aware of this? (especially Jilli)
Awwww! It's for Soulless! The book I nabbed at the F2F and fell in love with!
(This also fills me with envy, because WOW, do I want to do some sort of promotion with a GCS paper doll set.)
DavidS - Oct 02, 2009 4:25:28 pm PDT #10145 of 28379
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey, guess what I scored at Kayo Books today?
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers and Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter - two of the earliest steampunk books. (Not counting Verne and Welles, et al.)
Beverly - Oct 02, 2009 9:58:00 pm PDT #10146 of 28379
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I can't find my copy of the Anubis Gates--I thought it would come to light when we were packing to move, but it didn't. I'll have to replace it, and I believe there was a sequel, too.
DavidS - Oct 03, 2009 5:21:53 am PDT #10147 of 28379
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'll have to replace it, and I believe there was a sequel, too.
The Stress of Her Regard? Byron, Shelley and Vampires?
Steph L. - Oct 03, 2009 5:23:00 am PDT #10148 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oooh, I read Anubis Gates b/c of Jilli's rec (I think), but I didn't know there was a sequel. Must check it out.
Atropa - Oct 03, 2009 3:35:54 pm PDT #10149 of 28379
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Eh, I wouldn't call The Stress Of Her Regard a sequel to Anubis Gates. It's a fantastic book, but not related to Anubis Gates.
Speaking of Tim Powers, I finally read On Stranger Tides the other week. Whooo, that was fun. And I'm very curious to find out what elements Disney are going to use from it for the next PotC movie. Tim Powers confirmed that they had optioned the book and were going to "use elements from it". Whatever that means.
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 7:03:35 am PDT #10150 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I finished The Thirteenth Tale last night this morning (it was 4:00 a.m. and I couldn't sleep). I liked it, and I didn't see the twist coming -- that is, I expected a twist/big reveal, but I didn't see this particular one coming. I also didn't expect the reveal of Aurelius as
the first "reporter"
-- because of Vida's habit of lying like a lying liar, I assumed that that story (in the letter she wrote to Margaret) was a big fat lie.
I expected Aurelius and Margaret to end up together, and I'm kind of sad that they didn't.
I agree with everyone else who read it that Margaret's obsession with her dead twin was way over the top. God, woman! It's called Zoloft. Get some. (Although it took me until the end of the book to realize that her twin was actually a conjoined twin, because I assumed that her references to the "crescent" on her side were just more of her Extreme Melodrama. So, ooops on me.)
Still, I really did like it. Also, I was very glad that Hester ended up not dead. Or, at least, not killed by the feral twins.