Her expertise and knowledge of the subject certainly enhances her fiction--both the Peabodys and the Vicki Bliss books.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
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."
Beverly - Oct 21, 2010 10:40:49 am PDT #12688 of 28293
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Gudanov - Oct 21, 2010 10:41:22 am PDT #12689 of 28293
Coding and Sleeping
I've read a number of the Peabody books, but I petered out on the series. I thought the Peabody clan got a little too perfect over time.
Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2010 10:43:11 am PDT #12690 of 28293
brillig
I thought the Peabody clan got a little too perfect over time.
Yeah, once Ramses and Nefret got together, it lost some of the zing. I'm tired of the focus on Sethos, he was much better as the Nemesis in the Shadows.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 10:51:03 am PDT #12691 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
I miss the Vicki Bliss books.
Beverly - Oct 21, 2010 11:04:58 am PDT #12692 of 28293
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I only read the first two Peabodys and stopped there while the love was strong. I would read a dozen more Vicki's, though. And her Jacqueline books are fun, too.
Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2010 11:32:42 am PDT #12693 of 28293
brillig
There is a new Vicki Bliss! The Laughter of Dead Kings. However, I stopped reading it halfway because I didn't like Vicki. I don't know if she's always been like this, but her disdain for other people's passions became very annoying. She's far more self-absorbed than Amelia Peabody, even though both series are done in first person (with other POVs having appeared in the later Amelia books).
Kathy A - Oct 21, 2010 2:50:26 pm PDT #12694 of 28293
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
King of the Wind! Still a favorite
I always loved Born to Trot.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 2:55:37 pm PDT #12695 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
I think it's interesting that the book within a book about Hambletonian was later published on it's own.
Laga - Oct 21, 2010 2:59:47 pm PDT #12696 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Peter Lundy was my favorite. Wanted: Tall, skinny, wiry fellows... orphans preferred.
JZ - Oct 21, 2010 3:13:38 pm PDT #12697 of 28293
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Laga, I just finished rereading Peter Lundy last night! Verdict, many years later: some of the Native American dialect is pretty dodgy and cringe-inducing, but by and large it still holds up (and Marguerite Henry has much more technical grace and artistry as a writer than I'd remembered), and oh how I someday want to look down a long dusty road and see a wee Irishman walking toward me surrounded by a flock of goats and ponies and dogs and cats and chickens, with a burro foal on a pack on his back.
The illustrations were quite fine, but they still made me miss Wesley Dennis.
Now I need to re-read Born To Trot, and also Stormy, Misty's Foal and Brighty of the Grand Canyon. I can't even begin to add up how many times I read and re-read those books as a kid.