I am really looking forward to the fourth book, which she describes as "Ocean's Eleven in Venice." THERE IS INDEED A GONDOLA CHASE.
Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 10:32:51 am PDT #22285 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Polgara - Apr 22, 2014 10:47:39 am PDT #22286 of 28344
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.
Wait, what? For realz?? I totally have to try this series....
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 11:04:07 am PDT #22287 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
They're not overt, but any time a doctor appears in the story, he is dressed like one of the Doctors. Eleven is in the fourth book, bow tie and all.
meara - Apr 22, 2014 12:41:39 pm PDT #22288 of 28344
I did not catch the doctor cameos! Possibly because I have never watched doctor who. But I am exited to hear about a 4 th book.
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 12:51:24 pm PDT #22289 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It comes out next week! And then there's one more book left in this first cycle. She's doing three five-book cycles at different points in their lives (middle age and elderly, I think). That's the plan, anyway.
flea - Apr 22, 2014 1:37:05 pm PDT #22290 of 28344
information libertarian
A lot of the great 80s Regency authors are re-published in large print editions, for the grandma market I guess. I can find them at my library. I mean, when I'm a grandma I don't expect I'll have given up my taste for reading explicit sex scenes, but since I also like witty banter I am glad that both are available.
(I am amused at the perennial feeling that older people must be somehow old-fashioned. My mother is a grandmother, and she was at Woodstock, people! She knows all the cuss words and has had lots of sex in various decades.)
Connie Neil - Apr 22, 2014 2:23:25 pm PDT #22291 of 28344
brillig
I loved Valerie Vayle (sp?), piracy and espionage in the Sun King era. They're funny and sexy and the heroine has lovers who she maintains good relationships with even though she ends up with the hero, and said lover sometimes ends up as a friend of the hero. In the first one there's even a harem. The heroine avoids the sheik until she has to get to him to save her friend. The sheik turns out to be a pleasant man, and she remembers him fondly later. I wonder why my copies are? And if there are new copies available? Mine were falling apart.
DavidS - Apr 22, 2014 3:20:35 pm PDT #22292 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - Apr 22, 2014 4:12:05 pm PDT #22293 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, Skye O'Malley. My sister and I tore through those. They were riDICKulous!
We have taglines from those novels, to this day. Not too long ago, we were having sister-dinner-with-drinks at a quiet restaurant once, and I came out with "Conn! Conn! Stuff me till I burst!" and my sister finished the quote(loudly) with "Take me like the stallion takes my mare!"
Into one of those weird quiet moments. And people looked at us. And we both went into hysterics.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 22, 2014 4:32:16 pm PDT #22294 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh, I remember the "take me like your stallion takes his mare!"