'Shindig'
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 will seek out The Coming Plague, then, since I think I remember quite a bit from The Hot Zone.
Listening to the ZombieTech podcast w/her now, and I think I may stay up a leetle late and watch Contagion, since tomorrow is Devoted To Copyediting.
(I know I will end up pubbing this on my blog, but DAMN, I wish I could find someone to pay me for interviews. Someday...)
Okay, I just read "No Place Like Home," and it's lovely! Liked it much more than "One Hell of a Ride," and now I really want to read "The Flower of Arizona," since the events of that story are mentioned a few times in this one. I think I like this one more because it focuses on Fran, who is way cooler than Jonathan. Plus, Enid Healy is pretty great too. Verity comes from good stock.
How is Stephen King able to complete books so quickly?
dude's a machine and takes only three days off a year.Yes, I read "On Writing"...it was entertaining, but I didn't find much I could use in it. Even he admits the path he followed starting out(writing fiction for skin mags) doesn't really exist anymore.
I liked "On Writing" for the biographical elements more than the writing advice. His advice wasn't anything revelatory or unique, but his blunt honesty about how fame screwed him up was fascinating. And, of course, the story of The Accident. "I had just been run over by one of my own characters."
edit: I've always loved his essays. His tale of his son's Little League season that took them to the Maine state finals was wonderful. I didn't realize it was him while I was reading it in the New Yorker, till I finally remembered who Owen King was the son of and realized the significance of the state finals allowing "an obscure local author" to throw out the first pitch.
Yeah, that was interesting. And I really do enjoy an addiction narrative so I'm always down for junkie stories.
John Sargent on DOJ v. Macmillan : [link]
I like Enid and Fran quite a bit, too. And in the Sparrow Hill Road stories (I'm only halfway done -- work calls) there's a connection, since Rose comes from Buckley Township in the 40's, and refers to babysitting at the Healy house!
I like "On Writing" for its autobio nature, interspersed with thoughts on writing. One thing I like about King is his no BS approach. There's no "THIS is the one true way to write."
And in the Sparrow Hill Road stories (I'm only halfway done -- work calls) there's a connection, since Rose comes from Buckley Township in the 40's, and refers to babysitting at the Healy house!
What! Cool!
One of the weird perks of being a semi-celebrity: new authors send me copies of their books! Delilah Dawson sent me Wicked as They Come, and Kate Lock sent me an ARC of God Save the Queen. So I'm set for silly genre reading for the week.
And speaking of silly genre reading: Come ON, who has read the last Parasol Protectorate book! I need to geeble more about it!