Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
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."
the serious downside of purchasing on Amazon is that Amazon knows me. They send me email messages with things they think I will like and that engine is getting better and better.
check out this new fucking service:
kindle is partnering with audible and doing whispersync for select books, where you can read the book, and then it syncs with the audiobook position. I have wanted this shit for YEARS. YEARS.
The selection isn't quite there yet, but I'll be damned.
Tep, at one point
I thought that was AU Vengeous (or Serpine? argh, I think I read too quickly). Because in the "real" Skulduggery universe, Vengeous could just look at someone and they would sort of explode, and his eyes turned yellow before that happened.
I guess I need to go re-read that part. Which might be difficult, since Tim has possession of the book now. Hopefully I'll get home from work before him.
Oh, you might be right.
Okay, how do I search the text of a hardback?
Eta: yup, that was Vengeous. I can't keep my bad guys straight.
I've been gone to long to know, but if anyone like Justin Cronin's 'The Passage', I've got by grubby hands on an advance copy of 'The Twelve' and so far, it's spectacular!
Ahhhhh! I'm dying to read that!
Is gud.
OK, you guys, at least Teppy and Pix, owe me a weekend. I downloaded and then devoured the first three Skulduggery Pleasant books, and lost a couple days to them.
I am about 30% into Zone One (according to the Kindle) and wondering when the exposition dump is going to stop.
Appropos of nothing, I have a theory about Mary Poppins. A theory about who she really is - sort of head canon, cause I have no idea of authorial intent.
For any one who knows Poppins only in the movie, in the book she is a much more frightening figure - still on the side of good, but powerful and dangerous and able to easily back down very powerful supernatural creatures. One thing in common with the movie: she is prudish and while she does date Bert, it is obvious that things are veddy veddy proper.
So my theory: Mary Poppins is the Maiden aspect of the triple goddess. Any aspect of the triple goddess is powerful. And concern with children is not confined to the Mother aspect. Especially since they are really one goddess, any one avatar will have aspects of other faces of the goddess. I'm not prepared to make a big argument for this: just that it fits, and does not actually contradict anything in book. Anyway, a passing thought.
Hmmm. I like that theory. I'm not sure I agree 100% with it, but it makes a certain amount of sense.