Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
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 KNOW, P-C!!
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.
Read Mira Grant's Parasite...
Envy.
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:
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.
I meant in that it uses characters created by someone else.
ETA: Whereas Treasure Island!!! is a novel about someone obsessed with the book Treasure Island, not a story about some of its characters.