Read Mira Grant's Parasite Friday. SO GOOD. And I am so impressed with her research skills, although the science is beyond me; I can follow it, and it...makes me wanna look up tapeworms. It is science fiction in the best sense of the word.
Interview with Grant forthcoming in the next two weeks, as I have to re-read and take some notes, as of course I just mainlined it happily the first read.
I got the ARC through NetGalley, which made me VERY VERY happy, as I've been twitching like a junkie waiting to read it.
Finished
The FitzOsbornes In Exile
and just started
The FitzOsbornes at War,
and I'm dreading Major Heartache. I'm also going to miss Sophie so much when I'm done.
Given the success of
Downton Abbey,
it's a little hard to believe no one has snatched up this trilogy for Masterpiece Theatre. It would be perfect.
Read Mira Grant's Parasite Friday. SO GOOD.
Yay!! I need the next book nooooooow.
I'm really looking forward to reading the final book because I know she's changed things from the first draft (the opening is different, for starters, and she seems to have added a new structure/framing device), and also I've gotten over the "It's not like Feeeeeeeeeeed" part. I liked Deadline a lot more the second time around too.
Oooh, you have the BEST scoop, P-C!
dcp, I'm PRETTY sure Parasite is an auto-read on NetGalley. Lots of ARCs there you have to request; sometimes you're approved, sometimes not.
You can give it a try:
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ETA: But be sure to buy it when it comes out! Support your authors!
Coming up with new book salon ideas and wondered about doing something with books that riff on classics.
Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea
and
Dr. Jeckyll.../Mary Reilly
would be examples of ones more in the fan fiction vein, but I'm also thinking about books where a particular classic is a big plot point.
This is mostly because I want an excuse to read
Treasure Island!!!
by Sara Levine.
Ideas?
WSS as fan fiction? Really? I teach it as a postmodern classic.
