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
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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."
beth b - Oct 05, 2009 5:17:25 pm PDT #10165 of 28379
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2009 5:44:57 pm PDT #10166 of 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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 28379
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 28379
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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 28379
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 28379
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 28379
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 28379
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.
Strega - Oct 07, 2009 10:05:30 am PDT #10173 of 28379
Hee. But remember Stoker is a character in this. He got some stuff wrong in his version of events, is all.
It really is just like one of Meyer's Holmes books. Except witless.
Atropa - Oct 07, 2009 10:11:57 am PDT #10174 of 28379
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hee. But remember Stoker is a character in this. He got some stuff wrong in his version of events, is all.
But but but! Having Mina tell her son that exposure to the sun will turn Dracula to ash! When Mina and Jonathan saw him in London in broad daylight! Gaaah!
While I was in the bath reading last night, I asked Pete to do a Google image search for a portrait of Elizabeth Bathory, because I hit the description of her having "midnight black" hair and "icy blue" eyes, and then my head exploded. (Historical portraits show reddish-brown hair and dark eyes.)
In other words, I'm reading it with one of my copies of the Annotated Dracula nearby, and occasionally muttering "Google, motherfuckers!" under my breath.