Oh right! No 'e', it's been a while since I read the original.
Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. Shut up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Burrell - Aug 12, 2014 8:49:02 am PDT #22533 of 28344
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
EpicTangent - Aug 12, 2014 9:18:33 am PDT #22534 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
So you recommend it, Connie? Worth the $.99?
Connie Neil - Aug 12, 2014 9:47:40 am PDT #22535 of 28344
brillig
I found it very charming as I was working on it, and there were elements that I wish I'd written. Yes, for $.99.
Plus it's been through another editing pass since I worked on it.
Calli - Aug 13, 2014 3:36:24 am PDT #22536 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I recently finished Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead, and I loved it. It's set in Quebec, and it juggles four mysteries deftly, with plot and character development. I'm now going through everything else she's written that the library has. It's not terribly light, but it's very compelling. I'd strongly recommend it.
smonster - Aug 13, 2014 4:00:23 am PDT #22537 of 28344
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ooo, I read her "Still Life" at the beach, Calli, and really enjoyed it. Had borrowed it from my mom.
-t - Aug 13, 2014 4:07:00 am PDT #22538 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I read not that book but one in the series, I think. Still Life, maybe? Really liked it, not remembering the title notwithstanding.
Consuela - Aug 13, 2014 4:49:20 am PDT #22539 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I finished Elizabeth Bear's Eternal Sky trilogy last night, with Steles of the Sky. You know, it was really well-done. I don't know why I didn't find it more moving. But I did like it a lot: it's quite creative, and there's a ton of interesting women with their own agendas in it, in addition to various types of gender and sexuality expressed.
Plus, it's a massive epic fantasy that culminates in an enormous battle with mastodons, rocs, ghouls, demons, Shaolin monks, and thousands of Mongol warriors mounted on multi-colored horses.
So I guess I did like it. Definitely recommended.
Connie Neil - Aug 13, 2014 6:03:21 am PDT #22540 of 28344
brillig
All my Elizabeth Enright's are here. I am happily hunkered down in post-war New York City. And the stories hold up; this is one childhood pleasure that's held up.
Ginger - Aug 13, 2014 7:40:12 am PDT #22541 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I meant to say earlier that I reread the Melendys (except for Spiderweb for Two, which was some sort of dreadful anomaly) and the Gone-Away Lake books every few years and they hold up beautifully. The girls have agency. There's very little in the way of set gender roles. They face real problems and solve them.
Do today's children read them? I think they do fine as historical fiction.
Connie Neil - Aug 13, 2014 7:46:40 am PDT #22542 of 28344
brillig
I got hardcovers of Four-Story Mistake and Gone-Away Lake. The cover of Gone-Away is the one I remember reading. Glee!! And the paperback re-issues have the same illustrations.