OOH! OOOH!
I'm reading my first Neil Gaiman book!!
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Aims - Oct 05, 2006 7:23:20 am PDT #1301 of 28144
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2006 7:31:27 am PDT #1302 of 28144
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which one?
Aims - Oct 05, 2006 7:32:48 am PDT #1303 of 28144
Shit's all sorts of different now.
American Gods.
Kathy A - Oct 05, 2006 7:51:45 am PDT #1304 of 28144
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just got done reading the second of the newest Nora Roberts trilogies, Dance of the Gods. Not bad--since it's the second book, no need to do as much set-up, so a bit more emphasis on the developing romance between the slayer and the shape-shifter. But, it did strike me as even more derivative of Buffy than the first book, since it did have the slayer as the heroine of this story.
At this point, I'd have to put this series in the bottom part of the top third of her books, so not horrible, just not the peak of NR's capabilities, IMO.
Aims - Oct 05, 2006 7:53:24 am PDT #1305 of 28144
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'll have to go pick it up. After I finish American Gods.
sumi - Oct 05, 2006 7:56:13 am PDT #1306 of 28144
Art Crawl!!!
I finished Morrigan's Cross the other day -- I enjoyed it. I think that NR misses Buffy -- and so do I.
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2006 8:25:06 am PDT #1307 of 28144
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I just finished my re-read of American Gods.
Man, I forgot how much was in there.
Atropa - Oct 05, 2006 9:34:44 am PDT #1308 of 28144
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm going to re-read Neverwhere as soon as I'm done with Kushiel's Dart.
(The other half of the Gothic Fashion Hivemind started reading the Kushiel series, flailed and squee'd a lot, said I must must must read it, and handed me the first book. I'm about halfway through, and ... it's not the Best Thing Evar!, but it's fun. Except for not being able to keep people's names straight half the time.)
Aimée, what made you decide to start with American Gods?
Lee - Oct 05, 2006 9:41:12 am PDT #1309 of 28144
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I've decided that my plane books for next week are going to be whatever I don't finish this week from the Tremairie series and the Morrigan's Cross trilogy. I am also going to need to hit a book store for more though-- any suggestions?
Amy - Oct 05, 2006 9:46:24 am PDT #1310 of 28144
Because books.
I am also going to need to hit a book store for more though-- any suggestions?
I don't think the third one is out yet. (And I still have to read the first two myself.)
Have you read Sorcery and Cecilia? I just ordered the second Cecy and Kate adventure, The Grand Tour, and someone upthread mentioned a third one is out. I loved Sorcery -- light, delicious fun.