Well, on PC's recommendation, I got R&R and liked it enough that I got the second one before I'd finished the first. I recently finished the third and thought it was the best, most memorable, of the three. I'm about half-way through Blameless and I like it, but I'm not as crazy about the series. And I - finally! - go to The Hunger Games and I'm planning on getting the next two at some point ... maybe after I've whittled down my to be read pile a bit.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
Toddson - Sep 22, 2010 4:10:14 pm PDT #12443 of 28326
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Deena - Sep 22, 2010 4:38:33 pm PDT #12444 of 28326
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I just read a couple of books by a new-to-me author. Kelly Meding. Three Days to Dead is the first. It's got a bit of a Nikita vibe--young criminals taken in and trained by a super-secret org to police the monsters.
I like the world-building quite a bit. This is the blurb:
She’s young, deadly, and hunted—with only three days to solve her own murder…
When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue – in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there – her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night, she and the other two members of her Triad were star bounty hunters — mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives, but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor . . . and she can’t even remember what it was.
Now she’s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice – and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days, Evy will die again – but this time, there’s no second chance…
Ginger - Sep 23, 2010 6:11:37 pm PDT #12445 of 28326
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy - Sep 23, 2010 6:13:36 pm PDT #12446 of 28326
Because books.
Oh dear, Fern bottle-feeding Wilbur. WANT.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 24, 2010 3:02:48 am PDT #12447 of 28326
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I really want the one where he is in the baby buggy with her doll!
I think I must be hormonal, because looking at these illustrations made me tear up.
Barb - Sep 24, 2010 7:53:03 am PDT #12448 of 28326
“Not dead yet!”
I want the one with Templeton, whom I adore. (Which probably says unflattering things about me.)
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2010 8:23:25 am PDT #12449 of 28326
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh my god, I would kill for one of those.
Amy - Sep 24, 2010 8:28:45 am PDT #12450 of 28326
Because books.
I always liked Templeton, too. God, I want to read the book again now.
I really like the drawing of Fern sitting while Wilbur sniffs out his new house.
Kathy A - Sep 24, 2010 8:55:14 am PDT #12451 of 28326
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If the Williams illustrations for the Little House books ever go up for auction, I'd just have to do something to get my hands on one of those.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2010 6:13:29 am PDT #12452 of 28326
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As someone whose memory often fails, I found this essay comforting: The Plot Escapes Me.