Willow ,'First Date'
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."
I need to get it, Consuela. When I saw the promo copy before it came out, I knew it would be heavier than Code Name. Which is saying a lot.
Gillian Flynn is going to be on Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night. Could be an interesting interview. (Hugh Jackman and Elvis and Costello are also on that night, so it's a big win all around.)
Wow, that's quite a line up!! Thanks for the heads up.
Oops. That's Elvis Costello, not Elvis and Costello.
Need more caffeine.
I'm trying to make a "Who's on First/So Lonely" joke here, but failing.
Right?
For a change of pace, I've been reading the Dhulyn & Parno novels by Violette Malan. They're pretty classic sword-and-sorcery novels, about a pair of bonded Mercenary Brothers (kind of like samurai), who get into all sorts of trouble as they wander the world. One of them is a kickass woman, but they both are kind of interesting and I love their relationship, which is way more than a romance.
Anyway, they're pretty fun and as the series goes on the world-building gets really interesting. The writing is pretty good, although Malan's got a different idea of proper POV than I do (she will switch POVs in the same paragraph, argh). But her characters are interesting, the plots not too straightforward, and the cultures kind of cool. Plus, there's the occasional gesture towards addressing issues of race and gender.
The first one is The Sleeping God, and so far there are four of them. If you liked old Conan stories, or Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, you might like these as a contemporary version, where the women get to do more than be rescued from ancient evils.
I read Charm and Strange last night. That book needs a trigger warning. Something on the cover, or in the blurbs. Seriously. It's very, very good, but, as with a couple of YAs I've read, possibly a bit overwrought in telegraphing all the feels.
The stuff I've seen on Amazon hints that it gets pretty dark at the end. But you recommend it?
I liked it much more than I initially thought I would. It doesn't talk down, it stays in the narrator's head consistently. It's from an unusual POV and it's beautifully written. It's not conducive to sleeping well that night. And yes, massive trigger warning.
Sox, I put the book on my to-read list after my friend's review was "I need to go puke now."