And this Jonathan Harker mystery kindle single.
'The Train Job'
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."
I just finished The War for the Oaks , based on recommendations from here (I'm pretty sure).
I always pimp it, I know. It really deserves some credit for being one of the first works in what is now called Urban Fantasy. Or launching the whole trope of Fair Folk Among Us In A Contemporary Setting.
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I have read it. I also found it endearing. I have few thoughts beyond that.
I just finished The War for the Oaks , based on recommendations from here (I'm pretty sure).
I loved that book. I read it back in college and tried pimping it to all my friends. I ran with a fairly geek-tastic crowd (VP of the college SF and Fantasy club, bay-bee) and none of them got into it. Not even the person who gave me DeLint's Moonheart, which arguably was also an early urban fantasy. Pity, that.
Jilli, have you read "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown"? It's a vampire YA I kept thinking you would really enjoy. I did
I have not! I've been reading a lot of hilariously trashy "Gothic Satanic Romance" pulp from the 70s, because apparently my brain is craving fluff right now. But I will add it to the list of things I should read.
I just finished The War for the Oaks , based on recommendations from here (I'm pretty sure).
LOVE that book. I should add it to the rereading list.
Right now I'm reading Long Live The Queen by Kate Locke, the third book in her "Immortal Empire" set. The whole trilogy has been fun so far.
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I read this for one of my first book salons (theme=Books and the Bookish), along with The Reader (also WWII-themed, but certainly not endearing). Obviously, it was quite fun to be reading about a book salon for my book salon. I don't remember much about it beyond that it was a sweet book, with a sweet publication back story.
I know I'm late to the party, but I finally read Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire last night.
Both were engrossing, but CNV was astoninshingly, utterly engrosseningly good.
I just started Rose Under Fire! All the callbacks to CNV are making me tear up.
CNV was astoninshingly, utterly engrosseningly good
Yeah to all of that. So good.
My computer glitched at 2:30 am, RIGHT in the middle of...the scene towards the end of the book that makes you cry. And I flipped the fuck out, and had to continue reading in tiny 2.3 point font on my phone while the laptop rebooted (which takes 10 minutes, truly.)