My pleasure.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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."
Hayden - Sep 29, 2006 10:27:32 am PDT #1282 of 28143
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
QueenElizabeth - Sep 29, 2006 8:59:03 pm PDT #1283 of 28143
it looks like all three books are coming out in a month or two span (the last book is streetdated for Halloween).
Ohhhh... I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy the next ones will be out so soon after! I'm a binge Nora Roberts fan - I go through spurts of reading many of her books at once, and then I have to take a break. Right now I'm finishing the O'Hurley series and probably won't come back to her for a while - at least until the next ones in the vamp love series come out.
In fact it's because of NR that I haven't read any of the books in my to-read pile...
Atropa - Sep 30, 2006 9:43:43 pm PDT #1284 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
La la la. My copy of the new Terry Pratchett novel Wintersmith turned up in the mail today. It was wonderful. I really do think Tiffany is my favorite character of his.
Sheryl - Oct 01, 2006 5:03:21 am PDT #1285 of 28143
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
:whimper:
I told myself to wait until the next con to buy Wintersmith. That's just under three weeks away. sigh...
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2006 8:11:35 am PDT #1286 of 28143
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Jilli, I cannot recommend The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Even as a huge comics fan, I can't recommend it. "Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Stoner & Spaz, by Ron Koertge, did the trope of geeky-outsider-boy-meets-edgy-rebellious-girl MUCH better.
And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.
Atropa - Oct 01, 2006 9:20:52 am PDT #1287 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
"Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Gnnnng. Okay then, I'll give it a miss.
beth b - Oct 01, 2006 4:30:35 pm PDT #1288 of 28143
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Stoner & Spaz was much better than I expected it to be. well done.
lisah - Oct 02, 2006 4:46:46 am PDT #1289 of 28143
Punishingly Intricate
And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.
I'm enjoying King Dork pretty well so far. But I'm only 100 or so pages in.
DawnK - Oct 02, 2006 6:08:58 am PDT #1290 of 28143
giraffe mode
King Dork
I enjoyed it. Not my favorite of all time but very enjoyable.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2006 11:57:47 am PDT #1291 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have an odd couple of questions: has anyone read the Cirque du Freak YA series? It looks like the sort of YA vampire novel thing I enjoy, and I picked up the first book at Half Price Books … only to discover that each chapter header has a large illustration of a tarantula. And the bit of the introduction I skimmed was all about how the main character luuuurves spiders, and his happiest birthday was when his parents gave him a pet tarantula.
So, my big question is how spider-riffic is this book and/or series? I am mostly okay with short written things about spiders, but lots of description about how they move, or look, or lots of scenes with them will make me very uncomfortable. (I mean, I adore Caitlin R. Kiernan’s writing, but I don’t have any plans to re-read Silk or A Murder of Angels anytime soon, thanks to all the spider scenes.)
Anyone?