I am also going to need to hit a book store for more though-- any suggestions?
California Demon, by Julie Kenner. Totally fun. Not deep.
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
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."
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2006 9:47:20 am PDT #1311 of 28144
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Atropa - Oct 05, 2006 9:47:30 am PDT #1312 of 28144
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Yes, these. They're all sorts of fun.
Have you read War for the Oaks by Emma Bull? If not, go get that.
Lee - Oct 05, 2006 9:51:55 am PDT #1313 of 28144
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks! I will definitely look for these.
Aims - Oct 05, 2006 9:54:17 am PDT #1314 of 28144
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimée, what made you decide to start with American Gods?
So many people have said it was good, and it appealed to me last night. I've read all of "my" books a billion times.
sumi - Oct 05, 2006 10:01:43 am PDT #1315 of 28144
Art Crawl!!!
The 3rd book in the Morrigan's Cross trilogy comes out on Halloween.
lisah - Oct 05, 2006 10:09:37 am PDT #1316 of 28144
Punishingly Intricate
I have to write a haiku about King Dork, the book I'm currently reading, for my bookstore's blog's Friday review. All I know so far is that "Catcher in the Rye" will be the last line. probably. Trying to be clever on deadline makes my brain hurt!
-t - Oct 05, 2006 11:43:20 am PDT #1317 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
American Gods seems like a good place to start reading Gaiman. It's the first in that universe, after all. I'm interested to hear what you think of it, Aimee.
I just read Anansi Boys (out in paperback, yay!) and listened to "Monarch of the Glen", and now I really want to go back and reread American Gods. My books need to unpack themselves and get catalogued so I can find it.
Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 12:41:17 pm PDT #1318 of 28144
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I love that even though American Gods and Anzai Boys are set in the same universe, they have completely different feels. (also mostly non-intersecting characters with very minor exceptions).
I mean I'd enjoy seeing Shadow again. But I'm glad to know that if Gaiman decides to explore this univerise a bit more, it won't just be the continuing adventures of Shadow, as he survives various gods acting like dicks.
Note, for Aimee and anyone else who has not finished AmGods, the white font is definitely a spoiler.
sj - Oct 05, 2006 1:02:41 pm PDT #1319 of 28144
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Typo Boy. I was looking at Neil Gaiman's new short story collection and there is a Shadow story in it.
Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 2:20:29 pm PDT #1320 of 28144
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah - I saw it in "Fragile Things" and liked it. And you know it is fine with me if Gaiman continues to explore Shadow. That character sure as heck got a whole new set of issues to deal with in that short story. But I'm just glad that if he is going to continue to explore this universe that it is bigger than just a place for Shadow to have adventures. It is fine that one of the things we may see is Shadow's adventures - just glad that we can see important things happen with him completely offstage.