'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."
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The SO has been talking about reading them, so I'm excited for him to have them in his favorite format.
Finished The Fault in Our Stars, and I'm so blown away, I think I hate John Green just a little bit (although I also need to go get everything he's ever written immediately). I did sob, probably as hard as I did with Mockingjay, although it was a different kind of tears. Loved Hazel and Augustus so much, and Isaac, too. Actually, loved everyone, the parents, Kaitlyn, even Van Houten in all his misery.
In a few days, I might be inclined to think Hazel and Gus are a little too Special Snowflake to be completely believable (Gus's vocabulary alone, and I credit Green's editor with letting him roll with it, since everyone I know gets a lot of "But would a teen say that?"), but then again, maybe not. It all *feels* so true, and so honest, and it really is much more about living than about dying.
I'm looking forward to reading that, Amy.
Does anyone here know if Jack Vance's short story "I'll Build Your Dream Castle," is reprinted anywhere? or if it's findable? I've tracked down some collections that republished it, but nothing nearby or in the local library.
"I'll Build Your Dream Castle,"
I bet Ginger has it!
The SF Main Public library used to have a short story index where you could track down what magazine it was originally published and which books it had been anthologized in.
Oh that sounds perfect, if distant.
Amy, I loved The Fault In Our Stars. Both Hazel and Augustus work for me because real teens, especially the bookish ones do sound like that. Not always perfectly witty, but yes, they do have that vocab. And Van Houten. That poor man.
thanks David!
So has anyone here read Jo Walton's Among Others? It got a lot of press when it first came out last year, and was nominated for a number of awards, although I don't know if it won any.
I would expect that, of Buffistas, it would resonate pretty strongly with Ginger and Hecubus--it certainly did for me, although my days of reading absolutely everything in SF/F are long past. But since Walton is almost exactly my age, the books Mori is reading are, many of them, the books I was reading at that age--Heinlein, Clarke, LeGuin, Henderson, Engdahl, McCaffrey, Clement, Cherryh...