Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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've been re-reading all of the Miles Vorkosigan books, and I just realized why I always feel warmly towards NPR's Martin Kaste (which I looked up for the spelling) -- of course it's because of Ma Kosti and her Martin!
Also, I think I like the later books better because Naismith stresses me out.
Oh, man, Gooseberry Bluff is so good! The next one is actually coming out soonish?
I hope so!!!
Oh, man, Gooseberry Bluff is so good! The next one is actually coming out soonish?
In 2 days if my math is correct. I can't wait for the next installment!
Does anyone have the link to where it starts? I meant to bookmark the original post about it and never did, I guess.
Also, anyone read Maisie Dobbs? I had to put it down. I think the idea is fantastic, and I love the time period, and setting, but sentences like "They agreed to meet at seven and bade each other good-bye, then replaced their respective telephone receivers" is just too much micro-pacing and unnecessary detail for me.
Amy, you can purchase the kindle version here. You pay once, and the subsequent installments upload automatically at no additional charge.
Thank you!
I'm reading the series. I kind of skim over that stuff and get to to the story. The writer is actually pretty good about having various strings that come together in a rather neat package.
I'm reading the Phryne Fisher series (first book Cocaine Blues) that's set in Australia and has some similarities to the Maisie Dobbs series. Both set in the same time period (roughly) both women were nurses in WWI, both were born poor but their circumstances changed (in Phyrne's all the male relatives died and her father inheirted a title).
But I will say that Phryne wanders into the Mary Sue territory quite a bit. She's beautiful! She flies planes! She dances! She has a gun! She's fearless! She's fashionable! Men find her super sexy. However the books are a bit shorter than the Maisie Dobbs books and they are fluff but enjoyable fluff.
That's the thing, askye -- I was really interested in Vincent, and the whole wounded soldier storyline, and even in how Maisie got to where she is now, but it was just such a slog.
My mom owns the book, though, so I can always try again at some point.
The Phyrne Fisher series sounds like fun, despite the way her named is spelled. Who's the author? I loved Dianne Day's Fremont Jones mysteries, which were set in San Francisco at the turn of the century. Really readable, a lot of fun.
Kerry Greenwood wrote the Phryne Fisher story. She's supposed to be named for a Greek Courtesan. she was supposed to be named something else but her father was drunk and put down Phryne.
There was an Australian series made, I watched it on Acorn TV (streaming on the Ruku) but it's not on there anymore. The tv series made some big chances to the books, but the series was really good. It's not on Netflix or Hulu but maybe you could find it another way.