Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Jane Aiken Hodge, Elizabeth Peters . . . love them all.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
Connie Neil - May 15, 2014 7:21:36 am PDT #22358 of 28379
brillig
Toddson - May 15, 2014 12:13:20 pm PDT #22359 of 28379
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels aka Barbara Mertz) died not too long ago. sigh ....
Connie Neil - May 15, 2014 12:42:47 pm PDT #22360 of 28379
brillig
I didn't know that!! Dammit!
Beverly - May 15, 2014 3:12:59 pm PDT #22361 of 28379
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Victoria Holt was also Phillipa Carr, and Jean Plaidy--all three pseuds for Eleanor (Alice Buford) Hibbert. Who knew?
Amy - May 15, 2014 3:25:58 pm PDT #22362 of 28379
Because books.
I did! I knew that! ::grins::
I was surprised to find that Dorothy Eden was only even Dorothy Eden apparently.
I feel like there's one author from this genre that I'm overlooking, but I can't think of her name.
I do remember that after this era came the era of the Sprawling Family Epic, a la Evergreen and A Woman of Substance.
Amy - May 15, 2014 3:43:31 pm PDT #22363 of 28379
Because books.
Phyllis Whitney! That's who I was forgetting. I read a million of her books, too.
Connie Neil - May 15, 2014 3:49:22 pm PDT #22364 of 28379
brillig
I tried a couple of Whitney's but they were too cliche. Something about an orphan who caused trouble because her parents were "bad".
Beverly - May 15, 2014 4:54:13 pm PDT #22365 of 28379
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oddly, Whitney had no pseuds. I thought Plaidy was Whitney for a while. Whitney was 104 when she died!
Pix - May 15, 2014 7:47:13 pm PDT #22366 of 28379
The status is NOT quo.
I JUST finally started reading the whole Amelia Peabody series.
WindSparrow - May 15, 2014 11:18:11 pm PDT #22367 of 28379
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Walp, Pix, are you ever in for a treat.