Book ,'Objects In Space'
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 think when she talks about the sacrifice of herself she wasn't talking so much about all her worldly goods for the dress and the present but herself in truth, so she wouldn't be an embarrassment to Peter.
Not satisfying, but I think that's what's going on. There's a short story called Talboys that suggests she didn't completely give up her career.
There's a short story called Talboys that suggests she didn't completely give up her career.
Oh, I'm sure she didn't, but for a relationship that was presented up to that point as a marriage of equals, she almost immediately takes the back seat and spends all her emotional energy worrying about him. There doesn't appear to be anything on her mind not directly associated with the relationship--even the murder itself is of importance only insofar as it affects their honeymoon, and Peter's state of mind.
I find it very hard to reconcile that woman with the Harriet Vane in Gaudy Night or Have His Carcase.
I haven't, but for that price I might try it.
It's very different, but I loved it. It's one of my favorite books this year. Claire Dewitt investigates using the I Ching, a book by an obscure French detective that seems to have powers of its own, and lots of drugs. The post-Katrina setting seems very real.
I read it from the library. For that, I wonder if I should have my own copy...
Yeah, I just bought it. I couldn't resist.
The post-Katrina setting seems very real.
...maybe I should skip it.
I was wondering about that book to. Since I do not have personal ties to New Orleans, I think I will purchase.
Crap, 75% of my post got eaten, and I'm all ranted out.
Short version: Encyclopedia Brown and An Unfortunate Series of Events were not written for a YA audience. Which doesn't mean they didn't or won't read them, but I would love it if any journalist bothered to differentiate between middle grade and YA, or post-apocalyptic an dystopian for that matter.
Children's books and YA books are totally different! Except when there's a weird crossover, but those two examples are clearly children's books and not YA.