I would SO buy tickets to Joe Reads The Hunger Games.
Me, too! Joe would be way snarkier and more entertaining than Mark.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 7:35:54 am PST #17736 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson - Feb 07, 2012 7:38:34 am PST #17737 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And think how much fun it would be to have Joe and Aims Read - stereophonic snarking!
sumi - Feb 07, 2012 9:09:00 am PST #17738 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
The end of the Parasol Protectorate series???!!
Atropa - Feb 07, 2012 9:23:13 am PST #17739 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yes, sumi. Believe me, I'm gnashing my teeth about it.
askye - Feb 07, 2012 9:33:13 am PST #17740 of 28261
Thrive to spite them
Is there a specific reason she's ending it?
Atropa - Feb 07, 2012 9:37:27 am PST #17741 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think it's that she had a specific story arc planned. I remember her saying that she never planned to turn it into a lengthy series.
askye - Feb 07, 2012 9:42:35 am PST #17742 of 28261
Thrive to spite them
That makes sense.
Typo Boy - Feb 07, 2012 9:51:39 am PST #17743 of 28261
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
If the author thinks it is time to conclude the series, she is probably right. Otherwise you get things like the Amelia Peabody series far outliving its best days, and that awful OZ book with "button bright" as one of the characters. And "Tom Sawyer, Detective".
DavidS - Feb 07, 2012 9:59:21 am PST #17744 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And "Tom Sawyer, Detective".
Yeah, but that came between Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Finn, and I'm glad with he stayed with the characters long enough to get to Huck's story.
Polter-Cow - Feb 07, 2012 10:17:02 am PST #17745 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think it's that she had a specific story arc planned.
Each book does seem to have basically ended with a specific development that has moved the story to its natural conclusion.