That is fabulous, Jilli!
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Anne W. - Dec 21, 2014 3:08:36 am PST #22943 of 28343
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Fred Pete - Dec 22, 2014 5:13:58 am PST #22944 of 28343
Ann, that's a ferret.
Great news, Jilli!
Toddson - Dec 22, 2014 7:36:39 am PST #22945 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Congratulations, Jilli!
In other news, seen at the bookstore, Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle
Polgara - Dec 29, 2014 7:43:07 am PST #22946 of 28343
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Congratulations, Jilli! That's amazing and awesome!
Steph L. - Jan 01, 2015 6:16:52 pm PST #22947 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I finished Prince Lestat today, and it was great fun. It's a lot like QotD, in that it's a big, sprawling thing that has a lot of potential to go off the rails, but instead it hangs together even while you read it and think "...that's CRAZY! Okay, then!"
A lot like S1 of Sleepy Hollow, really. (Not content-wise; just in the sense that it's a big cracktastic mess that sounds like it could never work, but instead it's fun as hell.)
The end was pretty obvious from the start, but it's not at all about the destination, but the journey. It could have used about 5 or 6 fewer new characters, because I totally lost track of who sired whom, and who was separated from whom across the years, and who thought whom was dead but actually wasn't, etc. (But keeping track of the new characters isn't *that* important, because the new ones that end up as big players are ones that definitely stand out, so no big.)
It has moments of hilarious self-aware meta that are 100% Anne Rice talking about the books she's written, in the guise of Lestat talking about...whatever. It made me laugh.
I can happily pretend all the vampire books after QotD didn't happen, and just jump straight to this one.
Atropa - Jan 02, 2015 10:16:13 am PST #22948 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It has moments of hilarious self-aware meta that are 100% Anne Rice talking about the books she's written, in the guise of Lestat talking about...whatever. It made me laugh.
The whole section introducing Rose was some quality meta crack. Plus "Uncle Lestan" and his letters on pink paper with black ink! (No, I am never going to be over that.)
I can happily pretend all the vampire books after QotD didn't happen, and just jump straight to this one.
That's pretty much what I'm doing. Except for The Vampire Armand, because I have a huge soft spot for that whiny boy.
meara - Jan 05, 2015 8:29:07 pm PST #22949 of 28343
Dear lord--I love Courtney Milan, but I saw she was coming out with a contemporary (!) and went to her website to check it out...she's also got a story in a RWA anthology coming out next month. The hero? HAS MY LAST NAME. (And also the first name of several of my uncles/cousins). SO WEIRD.
sumi - Jan 07, 2015 3:44:38 am PST #22950 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, that is kind of odd.
Eclipse Award Winning story about the Preakness from Sean Clancy of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.
sumi - Jan 23, 2015 7:43:36 am PST #22951 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
The Very Best of Charles de Lint kindle edition - free on Amazon today.
Anne W. - Jan 23, 2015 8:36:48 am PST #22952 of 28343
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Oooh! Thank you, sumi!