Ah, thanks, Amy!
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
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."
hippocampus - May 21, 2012 5:58:02 pm PDT #18863 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
Polter-Cow - May 21, 2012 9:09:50 pm PDT #18864 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So, Conseula, I loved Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff! I'm definitely planning on reading the rest of his books now; I'm really impressed when writers can write such different books.
Calli - May 22, 2012 1:29:13 am PDT #18865 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Amy, there's Dolores Stewart Ricco's series that starts with Circle of Five [link] .
The main character is part of a Wiccan group in Massachusetts. There are several books in the series.
hippocampus - May 22, 2012 5:04:05 am PDT #18866 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
whatwasthatbook at livejournal is awesome. The book was Witchdame by Kathleen Sky.
flea - May 22, 2012 5:09:58 am PDT #18867 of 28333
information libertarian
Answered in 4 hours in the middle of the night, too, and on the first comment!
hippocampus - May 22, 2012 5:10:23 am PDT #18868 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
Seriously - that was amazing.
Consuela - May 22, 2012 6:16:04 am PDT #18869 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So, Conseula, I loved Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff!
He's really ridiculously talented. Everything he does is completely unlike everything else he does. I want to read Mirage, but I've got a real backlog of reading.
Still, I have great fondness for Fool on the Hill, which was his senior thesis at Cornell, because it's really romantic, it's a college novel, and it even has a very fannish woobie. (Not that I knew what a woobie was when I read it originally.)
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2012 6:20:22 am PDT #18870 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wish I knew who to thank for introducing me to him. Years ago, I was scrolling through my friendsfriends on LJ, and I came across a review of Bad Monkeys, and that was the inspiration for my List. That was the first book I wrote down somewhere to remind myself to read it because it sounded too awesome not to read. Thank you, random LJ person, for that review.
Ginger - May 22, 2012 6:32:57 am PDT #18871 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy, I consulted the most omnivorous reader of mysteries and fantasy I know, and she says:
Madelyn Alt. the first in her series is The Trouble with Magic, and there are 6 so far out in paperback. set in small town indiana, young witch works in gift/tea shop owned by older more experienced witch who becomes her mentor.
Juliet Blackwell. the first in her series is Secondhand Spirits, and there are 4 so far in the series. the witch was raised by her grandmother in texas, but then left and has knocked around the world some, to end up in san francisco running a used clothing store.
Shirley Damsgaard. first in her series is Witchway to Murder, and there are at least 6 in the series. the witch is a small town librarian in iowa, and consults with her witchy grandmother who raises and sells flowers and vegetables outside town.
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2012 7:20:15 am PDT #18872 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's Blackout day! And Seanan just announced that they optioned the film rights! I've been waiting for the official announcement for MONTHS. Hurrah!