I just read a sneaked copy of the final Montmaray book and cried.
'suela, I would love to read such a copy! I have just finished the second book and WANT MOAR NOW!
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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."
Kat - May 02, 2012 8:14:58 am PDT #18575 of 28297
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
juliana - May 02, 2012 8:17:10 am PDT #18576 of 28297
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I just read a sneaked copy of the final Montmaray book and cried.
'suela, I would love to read such a copy! I have just finished the second book and WANT MOAR NOW!
ME TOO!!
Sparky1 - May 02, 2012 8:26:22 am PDT #18577 of 28297
Librarian Warlord
'suela, I would love to read such a copy! I have just finished the second book and WANT MOAR NOW!
::positions self to read over Kat's shoulder::
meara - May 02, 2012 8:27:08 am PDT #18578 of 28297
Heyyy, juliana!!!!
Also: Betsy elsewhere pointed out a new Korval book was out in eARC (those who read Lee and Miller)...and I went to read the first few chapters only to realize I didn't have the book before THAT! I got so confused while they were reprinting earlier books in omnibuses that I didn't realize a new one had come out already. Of course, then I decided I wanted to re-read the preceeding books, only to find I can't FIND my copy (which I'm almost certain is in hardback) of Fledgeling. Grrr. I need to re-alphabetize my library, and I KNOW some of it is missing. eBooks are confusing me as to what I own and don't, too.
juliana - May 02, 2012 8:56:03 am PDT #18579 of 28297
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
kermit-waves at meara
I've been on a reading binge lately. 3 different auditioning for film books, the 2 FitzOsborne books, Galileo's Daughter, and Snow Crash (finally). Plus all of the Amazon preview for 11/22/63.
Consuela - May 02, 2012 9:44:28 am PDT #18580 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm stoked folks are reading the FitzOsborne books! They're so great.
The third one is out in October.
Toddson - May 02, 2012 10:56:11 am PDT #18581 of 28297
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
meara, are you talking about Ghost Ship? I'm waiting for the paperback.
Sophia Brooks - May 02, 2012 10:58:07 am PDT #18582 of 28297
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I loved the FitzOborne's as well. Even though I kept thinking they were somehow incestuous.
Toddson - May 02, 2012 11:00:51 am PDT #18583 of 28297
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't remember hearing about the FitzOborne books - what are they? (If something was posted and I skimmed past it, please bear with my skimming ways and tell me ... please?)
Consuela - May 02, 2012 11:32:24 am PDT #18584 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson, it's a trilogy about an imaginary island off the coast of Spain, inhabited by a dozen fishermen, three princesses, and a mad king. The first one is called A Brief History of Montmaray, and it's rather like I Capture the Castle, except when it's not. It starts very sweet and domestic, and then the Nazis arrive...
The series goes through to the end of WWII and keeps getting deeper and more emotionally powerful. I loved the characters and the easy way the writer wove them into the true history of the time.
The first three have been published in Australia (that's where Cooper lives) but the 3rd one won't be out in the US until October.
Highly recommended for anyone who is enjoying the current run of Upstairs, Downstairs or who liked I Capture the Castle or, probably, any Ruritanian romances.