I am delighted that I am the low bar recommended reader for trashy vampire books.
What I love about this is that Jilli is saying it with zero sarcasm.
HA. Yeah, I wouldn't read it any other way. It's Jilli!
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
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 - Sep 24, 2014 5:34:52 pm PDT #22708 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kate P. - Sep 24, 2014 5:49:01 pm PDT #22709 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kate, did you read his 33 1/3 book? It has a teen protagonist.
I did! And loved it, especially the first section. I thought it was one of the best YA novels I read that year. That's what made me think to ask the question. (He says no, or at least that he doesn't write with a particular audience in mind, but says if he wrote a book and his publisher told him it was YA, that would be fine with him.)
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2014 5:52:50 pm PDT #22710 of 28343
brillig
What makes something YA? I've never been sure.
Kate P. - Sep 24, 2014 5:58:07 pm PDT #22711 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
It's a tricky question for sure, and has probably as much (or more?) to do with how a book can be marketed than with the content of the book itself. But in general, YA books have teen protagonist(s) and are primarily, in some way, about teenage concerns, and/or told from a teen perspective (as opposed to the perspective of an adult looking back on their adolescence, although I'm sure there are at least a few YA books that do that).
Atropa - Sep 24, 2014 6:04:19 pm PDT #22712 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
What I love about this is that Jilli is saying it with zero sarcasm.
I EMBRACE MY RIDICULOUS BAT-WINGED CLICHES. I OWN 26 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF DRACULA.
The problem is there are so many direly awful vampire books out there, even reading them for eye-rolling fun gets a little painful.
Toddson - Sep 25, 2014 5:56:17 am PDT #22713 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I would recommend the direly awful books in a heartbeat (what? I'm still alive WITH heartbeat) but this wasn't even amusingly or entertainingly bad (I think I already sent you that one - The Cowboy and the Vampire?). It just ... came off as kind of blah. I didn't even finish it ... skimmed through some and there weren't even any "good parts".
Gris - Sep 25, 2014 6:56:25 am PDT #22714 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I cried in the car this morning listening to Code Name Verity. Darn it.
I am maybe half way through? I don't have a ton of listening time, so I'm going slow, but boy howdy is it compelling.
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2014 7:59:58 am PDT #22715 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am somewhere in Part 5 and yeah, this is one of the most compelling narrative voices I've ever encountered, and the reader is amazing. God, when she sings, it's haunting.
I feel like I'm missing some of the details of the plot since my mind sometimes wanders while driving, but I am getting the general trajectory of things.
Strix - Sep 25, 2014 8:48:59 am PDT #22716 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
CNV is SO AMAZINGLY GOOD. It's one of those books you're jealous you didn't write.
sumi - Sep 25, 2014 11:05:18 am PDT #22717 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!