I think my favorite fairy tale retelling of all time is Deerskin by Robin McKinley.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Deena - Feb 17, 2007 10:12:01 am PST #1978 of 28174
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
beth b - Feb 17, 2007 10:24:33 am PST #1979 of 28174
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I didn't like Fairy Godmother which is odd, because I consider Mercedes Lakey's one of the better story tellers. DH tries not to read her - and then finds himself sucked in to her books.
sj - Feb 17, 2007 12:16:52 pm PST #1980 of 28174
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone here read the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine? Is it any good? I went to get book 2 of the Dresden files at the bookstore today, and they were all out of it, so I picked up Ill Wind, the first book of the Weather Warden series instead. It had been advertised at the back of the Dresden books.
beth b - Feb 17, 2007 12:41:38 pm PST #1981 of 28174
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
no but I just requested it from the library...
Deena - Feb 17, 2007 4:45:54 pm PST #1982 of 28174
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
sj, I've gotten a lot of recommendations for that series, and I read the first 3. By the third one I was ready to throw it across the room and haven't picked one up since. I've been told I'm in the minority, though.
I'd be interested in hearing what you both think of it.
sumi - Feb 17, 2007 4:54:11 pm PST #1983 of 28174
Art Crawl!!!
I read Ill Wind but haven't felt like looking for the others.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2007 6:46:31 pm PST #1984 of 28174
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just finished the second book in the Otherland series and I'm not sure what happened. Or why what happened took so long to tell. Also irritated by the coyness around who was the mole in the party, with the presentation of suspects and complete lack of presentation of clues until just before the reveal.
In Literary 2, people said it picked up in 2 and from then on. If I didn't feel any pickup in 2, will I be similarly lost in 3?
beth b - Feb 17, 2007 7:05:48 pm PST #1985 of 28174
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I read the first one ( in the Otherland series) and really liked it. I read the second - and never went onto the third. Matt finished the series, but didn't really like it.
sumi - Feb 19, 2007 5:16:12 am PST #1986 of 28174
Art Crawl!!!
All Things Considered had an interview with the author of The Bridge to Terebithia on Sunday.
sj - Feb 19, 2007 11:36:15 am PST #1987 of 28174
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, I've gotten a lot of recommendations for that series, and I read the first 3. By the third one I was ready to throw it across the room and haven't picked one up since. I've been told I'm in the minority, though.
Deena, I just finished the first Weather Warden book, and I mostly liked it. I thought the sex scenes were very unsexy. I don't see how the series can be a Weather Warden series since she is no longer a Weather Warden when the first book ends. I definitely liked Dresden better, and I am still waiting for that second book to come in.