I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life. I have mixed feelings about the second series, and it was definitely more depressing. I've read the Tomorrow books several times too.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
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."
Ginger - Aug 18, 2010 5:27:28 pm PDT #12023 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 5:32:25 pm PDT #12024 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.
FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.
WE WILL READ THE SAME BOOKS AND WREAK HAVOC!
-t - Aug 18, 2010 5:36:24 pm PDT #12025 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.
That I do. I like Alexander McCall Smith for that, especially.
dcp - Aug 18, 2010 6:26:51 pm PDT #12026 of 28342
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
There were two books I remembered liking a lot when I read them in 4th grade, but couldn't remember the titles of later. Google helped me figure out they were Owls in the Family and Follow My Leader.
I wonder how they will hold up to re-reading.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2010 7:30:25 pm PDT #12027 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life.
They do have to do that, yes. I just don't find the sequence with the POW camp all that pleasant. It all gets a bit more grim in the last one, I guess, as you start to see what the new status quo will be.
Ginger, did you hear that if this movie does well, they'll be making it a trilogy? Interesting.
Beverly - Aug 19, 2010 12:24:32 am PDT #12028 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
dcp, is Follow My Leader about the kid blinded by a firecracker who gets a guide dog? I loved that one. And really took to heart the "don't play with leftover firecrackers on July fifth!" message. It was a nice little lesson for kids in perceiving life from a blind person's POV, while retaining the kid's personality.
Calli - Aug 19, 2010 1:09:22 am PDT #12029 of 28342
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I highly recommend finding a copy with lots of notes.
Thanks, Laga. I live near a university, so this shouldn't be hard.
erikaj - Aug 19, 2010 5:46:45 am PDT #12030 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
That is exactly my problem, well, the biggest, with AMS.(I enjoyed the Number 1 *show* so much more than the books...Jill Scott was great) But really? Soothing mysteries? ur kinda doin it wrong. Also words that sound right coming out of Africans seem strange when a white guy puts in on the page. Although Pelecanos is absolutely a white guy(although first time I did check) who writes black people, and I fangirl all over him. But it only rarely feels like he writes dialect, which generally makes me uncomfortable. Huh, maybe he is not only soothing then.
sj - Aug 19, 2010 8:55:42 am PDT #12031 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm currently reading The Body Artist by Don DeLillo. It's very intersting, and I just loved the opening section with the description of a typical breakfast between the couple. The stops and starts of conversations with questions unanswered or unheard seemed much more realistic to me than most dialogue one finds in novels.
-t - Aug 19, 2010 10:45:26 am PDT #12032 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Soothing mysteries? ur kinda doin it wrong.
Not to me. That return to order when the mystery is solved is the component of the mystery I value the most, probably because it's soothing. I'm fine with cozies.