oh dear ... I hope you weren't reading it in bed
We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Toddson - Mar 10, 2011 7:56:33 am PST #14067 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Polter-Cow - Mar 10, 2011 7:59:21 am PST #14068 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's okay; they were eaten by the plot bunnies.
Atropa - Mar 10, 2011 10:41:30 am PST #14069 of 28287
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I found a copy of Tanith Lee's Dark Dance at Half Price Books and bought it with some vague memory that this was a favorite of Jilli's.
Book one of the Blood Opera sequence! Maaaan, I wish some publishing house would put out book four.
Laga - Mar 10, 2011 6:16:35 pm PST #14070 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Would anyone like to recommend a book for my dad? He likes historical biographies, The Civil War, Will Cuppy, and Carl Hiaasen.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2011 6:45:04 pm PST #14071 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
People who like Carl Hiaasen tend to like Elmore Leonard and Randy Wayne White. It's the wrong era, but C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake books, set in the era of Henry VIII, are probably the best historical fiction I've read.
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2011 7:46:19 am PST #14072 of 28287
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We are all about the David Rosenfelt books these days. [link] Mysteries built around a lawyer, his girlfriend, a former police detective who is now a PI ,and his dog, Tara. Smart, funny as hell and really well-plotted. Everyone I know who has read them, loves them.
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 8:24:40 am PST #14073 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy,
what an interesting recommendation. I'm always looking for new mystery books to read. Do you have a particular novel you recommended we start with? Should I start from the beginning?
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2011 8:29:45 am PST #14074 of 28287
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Start with the first one ("Open and Shut")and read in order, as they each definitely build on the previous book.
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 8:33:19 am PST #14075 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, I downloaded a sample.
I need to leave the book I just started reading anyway because I don't like it.
sumi - Mar 11, 2011 11:36:29 am PST #14076 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Harper Collins blurb for A Dance with Dragons.