Anya ,'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."
Steve Brust just drove from Minnesota to Alaska and back. On the way, he sampled a certain Canadian agricultural product and apparently thinks -er highly of it:
BC buds are damn fine buds
They give me a stoner erection
BC buds are such good buds that–
Sorry, what was the question?
My buddy rolled a BC blunt
He wanted me to try
I took a hit last December
I don’t remember
Anything until July.
Cause…
repeat first verse.
Entire post: [link]
I tried to like Fair Coin, but for me the characters didn't resemble actual humans, plus I was busy throwing things through the holes in the logic.
Yeah, I couldn't get into the characters, though I liked the concept once it was revealed
Of interest to many here. SF/F Authors of Color and their books (it's a Pinterest page):
ETA: Dammit, the link won't link properly. Y'all know to add the http stuff ahead of pinterest DOT com, then /gracestellame/nancy-heard-a-who-39-authors-of-color-105-science-/
I thought the characterization in Fair Coin was one of its strong points.
Barbara Mertz (Elizabeth Peters) died today: [link] Her kids were named Elizabeth and Peter!
Aw, sad. I really liked some of her Barbara Michaels books, as well as Amelia Peabody. Shattered Silk was the first thing I read by her and is probably still my favorite.
That's sweet how she got her pen name from her kids' names.
I loved The Crying Child, although that might have been the only one I read. I've been saving the Amelia Peabody books for a mystery dry spell.
Farewell, beloved writer!
Oh, man, I read a bunch of the Amelia Peabody books a couple of years ago, and stalled out after the 6th one (or thereabouts). Good stuff.
I never finished the series. I suppose I might at some point.
And The Crying Child is new to me. Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters are always good names to look for in used bookstores because there are just so many that I haven't gotten to yet, it's decent odds I'll be able to find something I haven't read before.