Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Wednesday Wars sounds familiar, but no. I'll look it up.
I'm halfway through The Little Stranger and really loving it. I have roughly a million books to read, including Nova Ren Suma's Imaginary Girls and Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood, oh, and Jane, which is a YA with an orphaned Jane who becomes the nanny for a reclusive rock star. But I really want to get the new Stephen King with the four novellas because it's Halloweentime, and it seems fitting.
I have not really been reading YA in the same depth I was reading it 4 years ago. When I went to my local indie, I was shocked at how they have YA and then they have as large a collection of supernatural YA. So interesting.
I'm really looking forward to Joan Bauer.
I'm catching up on YA because I don't read it when I'm writing it. And through Twitter and whatever, I've stumbled across a lot that's really appealing, especially the horror-like stuff, which I love.
especially the horror-like stuff, which I love.
Titles! Give me recs! I need more good horror YA.
Jilli, have YOU read Skullduggery Pleasant yet? If not, I may need to loan you the first four paperbacks. It’s not YA horror, but it’s BEYOND AWESOME, and I know you would love it.
Anna Dressed in Blood looks really good, Jilli, but I'll let you know what I think when I start it. There are more but I have look some up.
I'm dying to read Gretchen McNeil's Ten, which comes out next year (and might not be called that anymore at that point), but it's definitely horror.
We had a cup of tea today in the little cafe where JK Rowlings began writing Harry Potter in Edinburgh. There will be pictures eventually.
I have not read Skullduggery Pleasant yet! I keep being told I would really like it.
Anna Dressed in Blood looks really good, Jilli, but I'll let you know what I think when I start it. There are more but I have look some up.
The title sounds good.
You would! Although there's a couple chapters in the second book that you should probably not read.
A while ago someone was asking about steampunk-y books without supernatural elements; I didn't have anything at the time, but I was going through some books and came across something that might fit the bill. It's by Gail Dayton, called New Blood. Victorian-era Europe; magic works. There are four types of magic, but only three are currently being practiced - one deals with spirits, can't remember the other two. The fourth, which has no practitioners, relies on blood (and, to a lesser degree, other precious bodily fluids). One reason it's no longer practiced is that most of the practitioners were women and there's a strong prejudice against women practicing magic. In ... the Austro-Hungarian empire? ... where the story starts, it's actually illegal for a woman to practice magic. Any interest? There's a second book, New Blood, which I didn't enjoy nearly as much.