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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 picked up a cheap paperback copy of This Is Not A Game when I realized I didn't have the brain power to dive into another David Mitchell book right now, and the opening few chapters involve an online community banding together resources to extract one of their members from a war zone.
It reminded me of us.
I've seen people mention the Emberverse in relation to Revolution, but I've also seen them discard the comparison. I am not familiar with the book, so I wasn't paying attention to the details, though.
I have to make a recommendation to mystery fans- The book "Still Life with Murder" is the first in a series about a lower class Irish girl turned governess solving a mystery for her employer. It is free on Amazon right now, and I really enjoyed it-- not just for the mystery, but the layers of the protagonist, and a light romantic element. I have read 3 of the series already!
Who's the author, Sophia? Never mind! Apparently, I already bought it weeks ago ...
I thought it was excellent- especially for $0.00! The other books are only $3.99 each, or there are used paperbacks in the "very cheap" range.
The author is P.B. Ryan.
Is it Kindle format only?
Consuela- I think so. The TV show seems to be a family never mentioned in any of the books with no discernable accent, still wearing current fashions (really? 15 years later?) and near Chicago which was written off in the books as a destroyed wasteland (like pretty much the entire East Coast). So the basic concept of the books, but mainlined for TV audience.
Erin, you were not the only one who saw those commercials and wondered if it was just a "post-apocalypse stuff is awesome right now!" or if it had some relation. Can't decide if I'm glad or not that it doesn't. I'm sure it'll have it's own fun.
I've been following some of the news about it, because Eric Kripke created it (he's the creator of SPN), and I never heard him or anyone say it was based on a series of books. And I guess I assume if it was, they would say?
Sad that Gore Vidal died even if he was ancient. Between my first and second year of college I devoured his books and essays.