I found it much more enjoyable once I learned that it was her playing with the conventions of gothic novels.
Hmph. The heroine is spineless and the hero is a drip.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
Dana - Sep 18, 2011 5:24:05 pm PDT #16410 of 28287
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Anne W. - Sep 18, 2011 5:26:50 pm PDT #16411 of 28287
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The heroine is spineless and the hero is a drip.
For a moment, I thought you were talking about Twilight.
Strix - Sep 18, 2011 5:33:17 pm PDT #16412 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
total fucking spittake
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2011 6:58:44 am PDT #16413 of 28287
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Riveting, wonderful, funny at times, and gripping at others (The Long Winter is an amazing account of the killer winter of 1880-1881, and the chapter when Almanzo and Cap risk their lives to get enough wheat to feed the town and save it from starvation is edge-of-your-seat nailbitingly written).
I hated that scene. As I remember it (it's been a while), Almanzo and his brother had a whole lot of wheat stocked up to be seed for the next year. Almanzo was risking his life to save his next year's crop. Cap didn't know this -- Cap thought that there wasn't any wheat at all in town, and he thought he was risking his life to save the town. And Almanzo let Cap go along with him, even though he had to have known that Cap wouldn't have agreed to it if he knew that the Wilders had some wheat.
sumi - Sep 19, 2011 7:51:40 am PDT #16414 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
That's right - I have to say, I loved it when Pa Ingalls figured it out.
Back to Amy's tour of Awesomeness: I am attempting to get a friend intrigued enough to drive me to the event. Will see if it works.
Amy - Sep 19, 2011 7:52:21 am PDT #16415 of 28287
Because books.
Oh, I hope so, sumi!
Kathy A - Sep 19, 2011 8:15:12 am PDT #16416 of 28287
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
LIW did shave a few years off of Almanzo's real age, probably to make it less skeevy when he started walking her home, considering she was 15 and he was 25 IRL, instead of the implied 20-22.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 19, 2011 8:20:11 am PDT #16417 of 28287
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I never made that connection about Almanzo and Royal hiding the wheat. now I am retroactively annoyed at him, as Cap Garland was my favorite!
sumi - Sep 20, 2011 4:24:50 am PDT #16418 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Craftlit which is a podcast which combines knitting with literature is going to be reading Dracula in October. (They're doing "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" right now.)
Jessica - Sep 20, 2011 10:09:15 am PDT #16419 of 28287
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
John Hodgman interviewed George RR Martin: [link]