Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.

I just bought the new book by Audrey Niffenegger (author of Time Traveler's Wife). Definitely looking forward to reading it sometime before Halloween--fitting, since it is a ghost story.

Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.

Oh! Oops.

Apparently there are a few Buffy references in Martin Millar's Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me. TCG is reading it right now, and he keeps mentioning them to me.

sj thanks, I'm trying to figure out if I want to finish the book but it's pretty short.

The main thing I'm dealing with is the whole woo is me I am cursed and caused my mother's death. I am death and blah blah -- my reaction has been Jsut get therapy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Askye, that part dies down eventually.

Anyone looking for a new read, my friend, Laura Anne Gilman (with whom I share an exact birthday) has a release today. It's the first book in a fantasy trilogy called the Vineart War, Flesh and Fire

Here's the blurb:

From acclaimed bestselling author Laura Anne Gilman comes a unique and enthralling new story of fantasy and adventure, wine and magic, danger and hope....

Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.

But now rumors come of a new darkness rising in the vineyards. Strange, terrifying creatures, sudden plagues, and mysterious disappearances threaten the land. Only one Vineart senses the danger, and he has only one weapon to use against it: a young slave. His name is Jerzy, and his origins are unknown, even to him. Yet his uncanny sense of the Vinearts' craft offers a hint of greater magics within — magics that his Master, the Vineart Malech, must cultivate and grow. But time is running out. If Malech cannot teach his new apprentice the secrets of the spellwines, and if Jerzy cannot master his own untapped powers, the Vin Lands shall surely be destroyed.

In Flesh and Fire, first in a spellbinding new trilogy, Laura Anne Gilman conjures a story as powerful as magic itself, as intoxicating as the finest of wines, and as timeless as the greatest legends ever told.

She's been getting great reviews and her research is absolutely meticulous, so for you guys looking for something new that's fantasy-oriented, you might want to check it out.

I read the first little bit of that somewhere, maybe in the back of one of her other books, and it was pretty compelling.