Elizabeth/Darcy?
Laura/Almanzo
Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
sumi - Sep 05, 2011 11:58:46 am PDT #16242 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Atropa - Sep 05, 2011 12:03:09 pm PDT #16243 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have an old hardback collection of the comics that was my grandmother's.
Oooh, you lucky thing. I have some vintage paperbacks.
Have you read Privilege of the Sword?
Yes! And I loved it. I loaned it to the StuntHusband, who made clappyhands of glee over it.
Kate P. - Sep 05, 2011 12:18:37 pm PDT #16244 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Amy, how cool!
Man, I loved Privilege of the Sword. So freaking good.
Kathy A - Sep 06, 2011 6:08:13 am PDT #16245 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I have an old hardback collection of the comics that was my grandmother's.
I've got one that I picked up at a used bookstore for a dollar, I think. The dustjacket is falling apart, but the rest of it is in good shape!
Consuela - Sep 06, 2011 6:12:18 am PDT #16246 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So Amazon had a Kindle deal for the Parasol Protectorate, and I got the first three books for $10. Finished Soulless last night.
It was fun. I'm not overwhelmed by the writing, but it's entertaining. However I was thrown right out of the story by the fact that Queen Victoria was introduced as "Her royal highness" rather than "Her Majesty". I don't pretend to be a specialist in noble etiquette, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong...
I also rather wished that the romance had been more drawn out: Alexia and Conall went from sparring to necking rather quickly, and I would have enjoyed seeing the beginning of the relationship, too. I felt like I missed out on something.
But it was fun enough that I'll be reading the rest.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2011 6:21:20 am PDT #16247 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sort of along those nitpicky lines, I am reading (and enjoying) The Help, except when they described a photograph caption in the New York Times in 1962 as reading (say) "The home of John and Jane Smith." I am 90% sure that would have said "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith." I mean, right? Several years later, my mother still had to get Mrs. [his name] on her Filene's charge card, and my father didn't even have a job!
Amy - Sep 06, 2011 6:23:52 am PDT #16248 of 28282
Because books.
I think the Times still refers to people in captions as well as text as Mr. Name, rather than just Name, yeah.
Consuela - Sep 06, 2011 6:32:56 am PDT #16249 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am 90% sure that would have said "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith."
In 1962? Absolutely.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2011 6:35:07 am PDT #16250 of 28282
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is what I'm saying! It was jarring.
Ginger - Sep 06, 2011 7:11:42 am PDT #16251 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It would have been Mr. and Mrs. John Smith until into the '80s and later in some sections unless "John and Jane Smith" was specifically requested. Today, it's John and Jane Smith, and the second reference is Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, unless Jane Smith requests to be Ms. Smith.