Did you guys hear that they think they've found Richard III's skeleton?
'Touched'
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."
I'm reading Reflections, a book of essays on writing by Diana Wynne Jones and am loving it. It's making me want to re-read everything of hers.
I read Diana's website a while back and it has a longish memoir about her childhood during WWII when she and her sisters were evacuated during the blitz. Really fascinating. Among other things, her neighbors out in the country included Beatrix Potter and T.H. White, both of whom were apparently quite grumpy.
Bloody and spoilery Song of Ice and Fire cartoon A-Z.
I'm about halfway through Blood Canticle, and it HAS to have been written as a comedy, right? Because it's hilarious. Sure, I side-eye the book pretty hard every time Lestat says "Dude" or "Yo", but then there are lines like "Not that the absence of hot chocolate meant anything metaphysically, of course", which are giggly delights.
but then there are lines like "Not that the absence of hot chocolate meant anything metaphysically, of course", which are giggly delights.
I blame you entirely for the fact that I am going to eventually read this. Blame.
I blame you entirely for the fact that I am going to eventually read this. Blame.
I am surprisingly okay with taking on that blame. It's hilarious! Metaphysical hot chocolate! Lestat giving editorial critique on Mona's journal entries!
I just put a hold on it. Lestat's critiquing Mona's journal clinched it. That's meta funny.
Wait-- somehow Lestat and Mona are in the same book? I stopped ready at Tales of the Body Thief. Or possibly Memnoch the Devil, whichever came last.
Wait-- somehow Lestat and Mona are in the same book?
Yes, at the end of Blackwood Farm. Because Tarquin Blackwood, fledgeling vampire, was in LOVE with Mona, and Lestat had kind of adopted Tarquin and ...
Yeah. It's all a cracky mess. I know that Blood Canticle is one of the books that infuriated Anne Rice's fans, I agree that there was no need to bring the worlds of the Mayfair Witches and the vampires together, and I hated Memnoch the Devil. But I'm reading Blood Canticle because I want to be able to say that I HAVE read all of the Vampire Chronicles, and because when all is said and done, Lestat is still my vampire idol. I just prefer him when he's not having Deep Thoughts about religion, and is instead the dashing fiend in the velvet frock coat.