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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."

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Aims - Oct 05, 2009 5:09:15 pm PDT #10163 of 28769
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It's best described as Buffy Becomes a Soccer Mom.

I'm honestly not sure if you would like it. It's fluff. It's funny. There are definitely hints of Buffy-inspired humor that those well versed in the canon will get. There's also a lot of hand-wavium that must go on.

(I'm terrified of rec-ing books to people. Mostly cause I'm worried of the "She actually LIKES this crap? What a moron!" Not that anyone I know would actually do that, but my brain is not always a rational cookie.)

Hil R. - Oct 05, 2009 5:16:44 pm PDT #10164 of 28769
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I liked her Givenchy Code series. It was fun.

beth b - Oct 05, 2009 5:17:25 pm PDT #10165 of 28769
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I liked the first one, couldn't really get past the beginning of the second. Issue: big secrets in marriage.

but that is my issue

Steph L. - Oct 05, 2009 5:44:57 pm PDT #10166 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 haven't read her stuff. Would I like it?

It's fun and light, with a few heavier things thrown in as the series progresses. They're Funyun (or insert whatever indulgent snacky food you prefer) books.

The writing quality gets better as the series goes on -- the first one is much weaker, in terms of writing quality, than the rest.

It's best described as Buffy Becomes a Soccer Mom.

It really is.

Jesse - Oct 05, 2009 5:50:53 pm PDT #10167 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hey, Steph, do you know Jonathan Valin? (Not know-know, although if you did, that would be hilarious.) I picked a couple of his books off my parents' shelves, and they're about a Cincinnati PI.

Steph L. - Oct 05, 2009 6:02:30 pm PDT #10168 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.

Hey, Steph, do you know Jonathan Valin?

No, but now I'm going to have to check them out!

I always do that "Cincinnati REPRESENT!" thing (in my head) when I read a Jennifer Crusie book and she mentions Graeter's.

Jesse - Oct 05, 2009 6:09:47 pm PDT #10169 of 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The books I have are from the 80s, so they might not be in print now, but still. Good times.

Atropa - Oct 06, 2009 8:35:13 pm PDT #10170 of 28769
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Strega! The silly Dracula book arrived in the mail today! Thank you! I am looking forward to reading it and snickering.

Strega - Oct 06, 2009 8:45:09 pm PDT #10171 of 28769

Hooray! No skipping ahead to find the post-it. I will know when you find it from your screams.

Atropa - Oct 07, 2009 9:45:07 am PDT #10172 of 28769
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

DRACULA SEQUEL FAIL. I'm going to keep a list of all the ways Dracula The Undead fails at canon or even basic Googling. I mean, I expect liberties to be taken with the original text, but some of what I've read so far is inexcusable. And I'm only something like 9 chapters in.

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