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.
We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.
Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
-t - Sep 11, 2012 7:48:58 am PDT #19721 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lilty Cash - Sep 13, 2012 3:20:48 pm PDT #19722 of 28344
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
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!
Rayne - Sep 14, 2012 12:10:51 am PDT #19723 of 28344
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Ahhhhh! I'm dying to read that!
Lilty Cash - Sep 14, 2012 4:56:40 am PDT #19724 of 28344
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Is gud.
Volans - Sep 16, 2012 11:15:55 am PDT #19725 of 28344
move out and draw fire
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.
Dana - Sep 17, 2012 5:18:27 pm PDT #19726 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am about 30% into Zone One (according to the Kindle) and wondering when the exposition dump is going to stop.
Typo Boy - Sep 17, 2012 5:45:20 pm PDT #19727 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
Atropa - Sep 17, 2012 5:55:18 pm PDT #19728 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hmmm. I like that theory. I'm not sure I agree 100% with it, but it makes a certain amount of sense.
Atropa - Sep 17, 2012 6:00:00 pm PDT #19729 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
And the only reason I'm not 100% behind it is because I think, in some ways, she's scarier than the Maiden aspect of the triple goddess. She's petty, she's the catalyst for inexplicable mysteries, she refuses to explain any of them, and she gets affronted if anyone does ask her for explanations. Which to me doesn't mesh well with any aspect of the triple goddess.
le nubian - Sep 17, 2012 8:07:03 pm PDT #19730 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dana,
I could not get past Chapter 1 because of the exposition issues. Let me know if it gets better?