So I read Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith the other day. It's the story of a light-skinned black woman whose father taught her to fly his crop-duster. So during WWII, she decides to pass for white so she can become a WASP.
It's really very good, although as a YA it's a bit light. I wanted more detail and drama, although the drama I got was pretty good. I just wanted more of it. And I wouldn't mind hearing what happens afterwards, since
the war ends without her ever telling the WASP or her fellow pilots who she really is.
Ooh, that sounds right up my alley. I will look it up.
Amy, that's fantastic. I want someone to do one for Spike or Angel, or for Francis Crawford.
In other news, I have become predictable. I'm reading a new epic fantasy recommended by Sherwood Smith, and I'm three or four chapters in, and the only named female characters are the flirtatious shopgirl and the Evil Sorceress Queen from the country next door.
On edit: and this makes me cranky.
Sigh.
Which one is this?
Sherwood's been writing things all week that make me grin.
Tom Simon's The End of Earth and Sky. The writing's not bad, but at the moment it feels very much like potboy-becomes-Hero, with an overlay of Woefully Misunderstood, since the frame story is that he's on trial for being The Big Bad.
oh. my. Going to look some more.
Anybody read Pratchett's "Snuff" yet? Just finished it and was disturbed by how not-quite-Pratchett it was.
Has his daughter started ghostwriting for him already?
I have it. Have you read his other recent non-Discworld stuff? I feel like it's probably in line with that stuff.
Okay, I'm still only about a quarter of the way through
Gone Girl
and I have the horrible feeling that I know what the twist is.
Is this something
Amy and Nick set up together? Is it a twisted kind of treasure hunt Amy's making Nick go through to prove something about
their marriage or his love?
