Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
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.
Woo hoo!
Episode 2 of Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib is available to download.
Yes! I'm glad they emailed me, so I can stop checking all the time to see if the next one is there.
So, flipping through an old issue of Entertainment Weekly, they did an article featuring the Favorite Books of "Lit Stars". The graphic has a picture like it's a snapshot of their bookshelves, which is how I noticed that of the 13 listed by Stephenie Meyers, I only don't have 3. I feel a little dirty.
She has 13 books?? I thought she just had the four Twilight books, The Host, and that Bree Tanner thing.
Probably a copy or 2 of the Book of Mormon...
...Or wait, are you talking about books she's written?
Ooooh, now I understand.
Anne's House of Dreams is still boring(I bought the whole collection for the kindle recently for a dollar.) I thought I was just being a touchy teen feminist, but she really does spend a lot of this volume being complimented by adorable rustics. It's like Green Gables badfic.(Although being mature and sedate and telling your doctor husband he's awesome are not exactly compelling drama, either.)
Anne's House of Dreams was where I stopped reading on my first read through of those books. The subplot with the brain damage was just too much, and not much of anything else happened. It wasn't until several years later that I decided to give it a try again and realized how much the story picked up again in Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside.
realized how much the story picked up again in Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside
Yeah, there's a really dreadful "Woe, Gilbert doesn't love me anymore!" moment in Anne of Ingleside, which I really really loathe. It's so... pedestrian. And I will never not be annoyed at the way Anne's writing is set aside as some petty little thing incompatible with the Most Important Task of homemaker & mother.
Which makes me wonder what Montgomery had in mind for Emily, after she marries Teddy and starts a family. Emily is utterly and completely obsessed with writing: will she give it up to be a mother, too?