'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Amy, I think you'd really like A Corner of White, but it does require some patience.
My favorite part of The Snow Child is the way that the characters change places in their ability to hold the reality of the girl. Like they are never on the same page in terms of disbelief and belief.
I loved The Snow Child although I agree that it presents a rough start that might lead one to put it down.
"How to Be A Woman" made me think of Fay. (I think she and the author use similar expressions.)
You guys were right about Eleanor and Park. Good stuff.
This is a lovely piece of fiction. Archetypal and North American, all together. I do like Ursula Vernon's stuff, both the written & the art.
Finished my reread of Storm of Swords last night and I had kind of forgotten just how many weddings there are. . . mostly extremely fucked up weddings - but the book could have been called something like "A Wealth of Weddings". . . rather than ASoS.
I finished The Snow Child and, predictably, sobbed. That's one I'll go back to again and again, I think.
I was fascinated by the way she didn't punctuate dialogue in the scenes with Faina, as if they were communicating psychically or something, because it gave it more of that fairy tale quality. But even after the baby's born, and you have to assume she was real, she also wasn't quite fully human either .
Oh, Amy, I'm so glad you liked it.
Can I also recommend another book? Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.
Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.
This sounds EXACTLY like what I need right now.
Lately I’ve been chugging through the delightful Sebastian St Cyr Regency mysteries and enjoying the heck out of them.
I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.