I loved The Snow Child although I agree that it presents a rough start that might lead one to put it down.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
megan walker - Jan 04, 2014 11:57:41 am PST #21816 of 28463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
erikaj - Jan 04, 2014 3:15:18 pm PST #21817 of 28463
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
"How to Be A Woman" made me think of Fay. (I think she and the author use similar expressions.)
Gris - Jan 04, 2014 6:11:55 pm PST #21818 of 28463
Hey. New board.
You guys were right about Eleanor and Park. Good stuff.
Consuela - Jan 07, 2014 6:24:23 am PST #21819 of 28463
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
sumi - Jan 08, 2014 9:50:37 am PST #21820 of 28463
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Amy - Jan 08, 2014 2:44:39 pm PST #21821 of 28463
Because books.
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 .
Kat - Jan 08, 2014 6:30:35 pm PST #21822 of 28463
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Pix - Jan 08, 2014 6:37:27 pm PST #21823 of 28463
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Amy - Jan 08, 2014 7:25:35 pm PST #21824 of 28463
Because books.
I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.
Pix - Jan 08, 2014 7:31:48 pm PST #21825 of 28463
The status is NOT quo.
Amy. Have you read Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily mystery series? The first is called And Only to Deceive. It took a bit for me to really get into, but they are richly researched, set in a variety of places (and quite vividly so), and feature an intelligent female protagonist. They're set in the late 19th century.