OH MY GOD YES. Thank you!
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 3:36:14 pm PDT #12670 of 28293
Because books.
Beverly - Oct 20, 2010 3:39:46 pm PDT #12671 of 28293
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It was bothering me too, Amy. Now help me think of the Jane or Joan person who wrote gothics, british, sort of family saga-ish things?
And DuMaurier--again, practically everything she ever wrote. Apparently I didn't read anything written by a man for about ten years!
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 3:46:42 pm PDT #12672 of 28293
Because books.
Jean Francis Webb, Joan Aiken Hodge, Jean English?
Damn, the book I'm thinking of isn't on the list for Whitney or Eden or Holt! I can SEE the cover. And it was almost a Marion and Indy story -- he was some adventurer who knew her as a child, and when he comes back, they fall in love. But it's completely international, like ... somewhere really cold, and then somewhere wealthy.
Wow, that's a lame description. But there was something in the title either with fire or dragon or possibly silk ...
Beverly - Oct 20, 2010 4:18:31 pm PDT #12673 of 28293
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Hodge! Thanks. I never read Webb or English, I don't know why. Apparently I read everybody else.
Could it have been a Michaels or a Hodge, I wonder? Or maybe this one?
zuisa - Oct 20, 2010 4:35:39 pm PDT #12674 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I never read any Sweet Valley High either, although they were certainly in the library. I think they were more popular with kids slightly older than me. When I was a kid I was reading copious amounts of Babysitter's Club, Boxcar Children, and Goosebumps.
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 4:39:25 pm PDT #12675 of 28293
Because books.
It's not that one, Bev, although it looks sort of similar.
I'm going to have to ask my mom tomorrow, damn it. And I know she's not going to remember.
le nubian - Oct 20, 2010 5:03:19 pm PDT #12676 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fred Pete - Oct 21, 2010 5:03:54 am PDT #12677 of 28293
Ann, that's a ferret.
Did anyone outside of the Chicago area read a book called Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Does Southern Wisconsin count? I remember enjoying it thoroughly, but I don't remember much more than the bare outline. And the narrator's First Confession.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 7:46:50 am PDT #12678 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Tor.com is having a Steampunk fortnight.
lisah - Oct 21, 2010 8:19:58 am PDT #12679 of 28293
Punishingly Intricate
But also my mom's old Victoria Holts and pretty much anything she had around -- a lot of those big family saga books like Evergreen that were big at the end of the 1970s
Oh my gosh, me too! From about age 10-14? something like that. I didn't read horror though. too scary!
I am also too old for Sweet Valley.