Ooh, new book in the Swordspoint-verse!
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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."
I'm finally reading books again, and it's wonderful. I've recently read We Need to Talk About Kevin, Life of Pi and the first Master and Commander book, and now I'm reading The Master by Colm Toibin. Oh reading not related to school, how I have missed you.
My supervisor gave me one of those 40% off the price of one book coupons for Borders. Since my Christmas lists are at home and this is good for today only, I am probably going to use this on myself.
So. Read any fabulous books lately?
I'm rereading the "Heaven" series by VC Andrews!
Oh, wait.
Nevermind.
I'm reading The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust, which so far is very cool. Not too many African diaspora books are laden with this kind of Star Wars/Star Trek/Alan Moore reference spice.
Plus, the chapter I just finished kicked off with a Tim Bayliss quote.
That's trippy, Raq.
Shrift, it's probably too late, but I'd recommend The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner, which has fannish behavior, girls in tall boots and feather hats learning to fence, and a tormented gay male romance. Plus, sex. I enjoyed it lots, more than The Fall of Kings, which did little for me.
I did already go shopping, Consuela, but I'll never turn down a book rec. I'm getting a lot of reading done on the bus these days.
I liked The Fall of the Kings, but more in a "so that's what they were talking about way than a "that's wicked cool" way. Kinda like the Silmarillion, actually. The Privilege of the Sword, on the other hand, rocked hardcore. I can't wait till my daughter's old enough to read it.
The last book I read and loved was The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril