Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned.
WHAT.
I am...cautiously intrigued.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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."
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2014 5:13:53 pm PDT #22161 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
sj - Mar 09, 2014 5:16:44 pm PDT #22162 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.
I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?
No, he didn't.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2014 5:19:40 pm PDT #22163 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am...cautiously intrigued.
EM's family were communists and were heavily involved with the Civil Rights movement from its foundation. Her dad was roommates with Paul Robeson at one time (in the forties?), and Robeson was the best man at his first wedding (before EM's mom).
Her father was the only white staff member (art director) on Freedomways, a lefty journal of black writing for all of the sixties and into the early seventies. Her parents not only attended the March on Washington, but EM was picked up and kissed as a three year old by MLK himself.
So, anyway, they got a hand-me-down suitcase from W.E.B. Dubois.
Cass - Mar 09, 2014 5:27:00 pm PDT #22164 of 28344
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am...cautiously intrigued.
I'm horrified and convinced it'll be a hot mess. But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2014 5:34:45 pm PDT #22165 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.
Right there with you.
Atropa - Mar 09, 2014 6:24:05 pm PDT #22166 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But I'm also totally going to read it, let's be real.
Yep. And if she does a book tour stop that comes anywhere near Seattle, I'll be there. Bonkers or not, that woman's writing was/is a huge influence on me.
Atropa - Mar 09, 2014 6:28:29 pm PDT #22167 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
From someone on Tumblr who actually listened to the online radio show Anne Rice made the announcement on (it's her son's show, so no surprise she was on it):
She said she left out all the characters from the crossover books (merrick, blackwood farm, etc) because even she wasn’t so hot on those books.
javachik - Mar 09, 2014 10:59:59 pm PDT #22168 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.
Didn't mean to be a thread-killer. Sorry.
Amy - Mar 11, 2014 9:56:04 am PDT #22169 of 28344
Because books.
Keith Richards is writing a children's book.
One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill! Maybe Goodnight Bong?
Consuela - Mar 13, 2014 8:08:59 am PDT #22170 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So if anyone is looking for some entertaining lightweight reading, I can recommend the Chronicles of St. Mary's by Jodi Taylor. [link]
They're fast, plotty, silly novels about a British time-travel institute (rather like the one in Connie Willis' novels), in which historians go back in time to witness the battle of Agincourt or confirm that Achilles really did kill Hector in front of the gates of Troy. There's a pretty high body-count--these researchers managed to get themselves killed coming and going--but since most of the characters are thinly-drawn, it's not too traumatic.
They're witty, the narrator comes across as something like Donna Noble with a PhD in history--she's a bossy adrenaline junkie who steamrolls just about everyone--and the plots really move fast. Which is good, because the world-building is just a little shaky.
Serious they're not (even though the very fate of the world is at stake now and again), but they are fun, and often funny or surprising. Good beach or bus reading, I would say.