Kaylee ,'The Message'
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."
It's like a pot of soup that bubbles along but doesn't force you to eat it all right now.
You're implying some pretty forceful, maybe even non-consensual soups out there. There are safe places for you, Kat. We can get you away from your problem.
Just..not soup kitchen. Too soon.
Okay, I inhaled Deadline and Blackout last night. Uh, wowza. Seanan definitely seems to be a scholar in the Whedon/Minear school of writing. Kept me guessing on who was going to live or die. I was torn between hoovering the story up and savoring it. I hoovered, so I'll have to go back and read more slowly.
Oh yeah, Seanan will kill everyone. But she does it well, and not gratuitously.
I hoovered Blackout even though I'd already read/edited it. So addictive.
I am re-reading Mary Stewart, starting with Madam, Will You Talk? and Wildfire at Midnight. I'd read them backwards and forwards twenty years ago, and I was a little anxious that they wouldn't bear up, but gosh, they do. Witty, suspenseful, beautifully crafted. and evem though they're Gothic romances, the relationships do develop somewhat reasonably, rather than "Oh, I'm in danger, oh, he's handsome, oh, we're getting married." There's generallly, "I'm in danger, he's handsome, darn it, I think he's the killer I'd better watch myself very carefully." Heroines with brains and a lick of self-preservation instinct. Generally.
I'm saving Crystal Cave and Hollow Hills and Last Enchantment for last.
Reading her books is a masterclass in setting up character and situation. With Mid-Century being the Next Big Thing, her books should get a renaissance, if all was fair.
The Newsflesh series is made of AWESOME!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it -- I adore it. So good.
I'm saving Crystal Cave and Hollow Hills and Last Enchantment for last.
I did not enjoy The Wicked Day. Haven't read it since high school. But I read the Merlin Trilogy repeatedly. I wonder if I should give it another try.
You'll note I left Wicked Day off. I didn't enjoy it either.
Ditto on The Wicked Day. It's one of the very few Stewarts I won't reread. Nine Coaches Waiting? This Rough Magic? Airs Above the Ground? Yes please. It's been awhile, I should revisit. My paperbacks are brittle and friable. I should probably replace them.
I also love Jane Aiken Hodge, but she's harder to replace.