I know, and that book is awesome! There are definitely plenty of exceptions to my good-but-typical comment--it's just a general trend I've seen, particularly in the romance subgenres I read most frequently.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2015 3:01:34 pm PDT #23185 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Consuela - Apr 12, 2015 9:21:33 am PDT #23186 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sherwood Smith has a great essay here on the difference between Austen and Heyer: [link]
And I learned a new thing!
Consuela - Apr 12, 2015 9:22:50 am PDT #23187 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Also, if people like Regency romances, Sherwood's two latest novels, Rondo Allegro and Danse de la Folie are both very good, although I liked Rondo Allegro better.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 1:38:27 pm PDT #23188 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 1:38:51 pm PDT #23189 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, I was just coming in here to post Sherwood's essay. I love it so.
So many great things being written on awards right now. Among them, the fact that Kit Reed (one of Joss Whedon's teachers) and many other female writers and writers of color have gone for much longer than since 2009 without receiving a shiny rocket... and kept writing. Kit pointed out somewhere recently that if she'd written with an eye to awards, she would have buried her typewriter by now.
And the amazing Michi Trota said something I've been thinking about more and more. Awards are great for the extended reading lists -- and reasons to read -- that they provide. This year's reading list (I've given it a crack already, as I'm determined to give everything at least a paragraph to win me over) is differently shaped and I am missing a lot of new voices that emerged in 2014.
It's harder for me now to make public reading lists, but I'd love to keep one somewhere -- maybe here? I don't know, I'm mostly musing.
Amy - Apr 12, 2015 4:17:26 pm PDT #23190 of 28342
Because books.
It's harder for me now to make public reading lists
Why?
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 5:08:39 pm PDT #23191 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
Why?
Last list of novels I posted, I got asked why I hadn't included x book, by its author.
Strix - Apr 12, 2015 5:40:10 pm PDT #23192 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Whut?!
Dang, Sox, that's just...wow. One should be able to write a list of books one recommends without a frigging legal disclaimer attached to it. @@
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 6:02:50 pm PDT #23193 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
It's not a huge deal, just something I'm more aware of now. Bent feelings :(
Burrell - Apr 12, 2015 6:05:34 pm PDT #23194 of 28342
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh Sox, I can totes picture that one. On your side I mean. I can't actually picture asking someone that. Because duh!