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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."
Sorry. I remember a few months ago when someone was looking for pictures with a certain look, and I posted one of Evelyn Nesbit, somebody responded with something like, "Wow, I had no idea when I was reading her children's books that she was such a sexy babe," so I figured it was the same mistake again.
(Oh. It seems we've had this conversation before. Nevermind. DavidS "Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness" Jun 14, 2008 11:10:30 pm PDT )
Huh, it made sense to me. They had talked about people being separated from their daemons and not dying before it happened.
I must have missed that, Glam. It was a major point made in the first book that you die if you're separated from your daemon. I thought it was a really cool idea, and then he just threw it out in the third book.
A bit more of her bio:
On 22 April 1880 Edith married Hubert Bland, though their unconventional marriage suffered from infidelity. Bland was one of the founders of the Fabian Society, of which Havelock Ellis, Eleanor Marx, and George Bernard Shaw were among its members. At this time Nesbit became an active socialist, cut her hair short and embraced the new values of the "advanced" woman. She and her husband jointly edited the Society's journal Today and entertained many friends and colleagues at their grand home Well Hall, Kent. Smoking cigarettes, the vivacious and bohemian dark haired Nesbit was always surrounded by a large circle of friends and admirers.
And she died of lung cancer.
Speaking of Pullman, has anyone read the Sally Lockhart trilogy?
I loved them, although I haven't read them in a while (a decade, maybe?) I still remember the outraged fury I felt (at the unjust laws, not the book) when I read The Tiger in the Smoke.
I'll have to borrow them from them library again. Yay, books!
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me. So much so that I really couldn't read The Tiger in the Smoke objectively, I just wanted Fred to still be alive.
Speaking of books that can make someone cry - the ending of The Shadow in the North just destroyed me.
Oh yeah. Tears were shed over that one, too.
I think I'm going to have to shelve some of my favorite books under "Cry at the Ending." Haven't read the Pullman yet, but I've got The Plague Dogs and The Incredible Journey.
I did see a "Ruby" dramatization starring Billie Piper and thought it was really good stuff.
Last book that made me cry was Richard Price's "Freedomland"...it ought to, it was essentially an urban recasting of the Susan Smith case.