Jesse, yes! And YES. She is a novelist but I encountered her first on TWOP.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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 - Jul 18, 2012 5:59:05 pm PDT #19411 of 28343
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
erikaj - Jul 18, 2012 6:02:41 pm PDT #19412 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
sj,I read Jennifer Weiner a lot too. Kinda psyched to see her new one.
hippocampus - Jul 18, 2012 6:03:33 pm PDT #19413 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
JZ - is this YA?
Strix - Jul 18, 2012 6:10:25 pm PDT #19414 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It isn't YA, but it is very good; I read it and immediately wanted the sequel. Fantastic characterization, dry wit, lovely protag(s)...very intelligent, draws on wonderful mythologies and twists some familiar religious tropes in a way that I quite enjoyed but that some might find blasphemous, which is always fun when it's well-done, and this is. The whole book is story-driven but lyrical. I really enjoyed it, and was chuffed to see Gaiman recced it; it deserves it.
It's reminiscent of American Gods in some ways, but not derivative.
hippocampus - Jul 18, 2012 6:29:54 pm PDT #19415 of 28343
not your mom's socks.
Thanks - it sounds wonderful. I was mostly asking in terms of who I could suggest beyond Consuela's excellent recs.
Gris - Jul 19, 2012 2:06:04 am PDT #19416 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I officially love The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. I liked it from the beginning, but after the fifth book I like it more than any YA fantasy series I've read other than the big HP. I actually think I like it more than The Chronicles of Prydain, and that's some serious childhood memory it's beating to get there.
JZ - Jul 19, 2012 4:55:49 am PDT #19417 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks, all!
It already got a blurb from Jo Walton with a promised full review to come, so she's covered.
Mely/Coffeeandink, Kate Nepveu, Rachel Manija Brown, Abigail Nussbaum, Niall Harrison, Liz Burke ... Jim Hines
Ooh, excellent. Thanks much. Are Mely and Abigail Buffistas emeritae/Buffista-adjacent, or am I misremembering? Are any of the others?
Definitely not YA (or, if YA, then guaranteed a spot in the top three of next year's Most Challenged Books list).
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2012 5:54:41 am PDT #19418 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Pammy?
Pamie was the TwoP recapper who completely failed to understand what people saw in Wonderfalls and dedicated herself to spreading that same joyless ennui to her readers. Not high on my list of people whose original work I'd be interested in reading.
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2012 6:15:16 am PDT #19419 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did enjoy her Gilmore Girls recaps, though, and Why Girls Are Weird.
Consuela - Jul 19, 2012 7:12:11 am PDT #19420 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Mely has posted here on occasion, but not recently. She's been pretty quiet publicly lately (I assume since she was being stalked/harrassed pretty horribly in the aftermath of RaceFail), but she does occasionally post reviews.
Frankly, for a professional blurb, Abigail, Niall, and Hines are your best bets. Abigail does reviews for Strange Horizons as well as on her own blog; Niall used to be the editor of Clarksworld, I think; I assume you know who Jim Hines is. Kate, Mely, and Rachel are great for word-of-mouth. I know Niall, Kate, Mely, and Rachel, and Abigail to a certain extent, and you're welcome to use my name there.