That sounds really familiar, but I have no idea, ita.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
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."
Amy - May 13, 2014 6:33:46 pm PDT #22350 of 28344
Because books.
Polter-Cow - May 13, 2014 8:17:11 pm PDT #22351 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That would be Do Not Link.
Unrelated, here is Chitra Banerjee Devakaruni having a Twitter conversation with Geoffrey Chaucer. It's wonderful.
§ ita § - May 14, 2014 11:10:02 am PDT #22352 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thank you, PC. I wish there was somewhere we could put that nice and obvious.
Calli - May 15, 2014 6:51:48 am PDT #22353 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Mary Stewart has died. [link] Not a life cut tragically short, but still, sad. I loved her Merlin books when I was in high school.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2014 6:57:50 am PDT #22354 of 28344
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Huh. I guess she was in my mental list of "People I didn't know were still alive." Must go read her books again in tribute, I've been saving the Merlin trilogy for a special occasion.
Amy - May 15, 2014 7:03:13 am PDT #22355 of 28344
Because books.
My mom had lots of her books. I remember being fascinated with the title of Touch Not the Cat when I was a kid.
Beverly - May 15, 2014 7:08:45 am PDT #22356 of 28344
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Airs Above the Ground, Madam, Will you Walk?, Nine Coaches Waiting, This Rough Magic. She almost always had evocative titles. And I did love her romances, even the early ones.
Amy - May 15, 2014 7:14:34 am PDT #22357 of 28344
Because books.
I don't think I actually read any Mary Stewart, but I read others like her -- Dorothy Eden and Victoria Holt especially.
Sort of on topic, too, when I was at a Catholic high school in Philly for a writing thing, I was in one of the English classrooms, and there were copies of Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt, which really surprised me. I'd never heard of a book like that taught in a high school before.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2014 7:21:36 am PDT #22358 of 28344
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Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Jane Aiken Hodge, Elizabeth Peters . . . love them all.
Toddson - May 15, 2014 12:13:20 pm PDT #22359 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels aka Barbara Mertz) died not too long ago. sigh ....