'Out Of Gas'
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."
Wait, is Sharp Objects the one with the survivor of the family murders, or the one where the journalist goes home to her crazy mother?
I actually liked both of them, although the going home/crazy mother one was less developed and a little too modern Southern gothic for me. The other one was beautifully complicated, but it all fit so well at the end.
Wait, is Sharp Objects the one with the survivor of the family murders, or the one where the journalist goes home to her crazy mother?
Sharp Objects is the journalist. I keep track of it because you use sharp objects for cutting.
That makes sense! Thank you. That was her first novel then, wasn't it? It felt first-novelish to me.
Yeah, it was her first. I think it has the most predictable ending, but I love the characters.
I recommended Seanan to someone yesterday and her Mira Grant books. To someone who doesn't really like the genre but had read the first Harry Dresden book and liked it so I thought he might like her. I rec'd...well all of them I was like - just read them! try it you will see!
I'm adding Velveteen books to my to read list.
Kindle Version of Sorcery and Cecelia is on sale at Amazon for $1.99.
I skipped and skimmed so I'm not sure this has appeared here but our own Fran Wilde's novel Updraft has been included in a list of five novels that include kickass mom's on Tor.com.
Well, I finished the All Souls trilogy (Discovery of Witches), and I have very mixed feelings.
Let me start by saying that I did enjoy the series, but I doubt it's one that I'll ever re-read.
1) It needed some serious editing. There was absolutely no need for it to be as long as it was.
2) I kind of hated Matthew. He just wasn't appealing to me in the slightest.
3) The time traveling drives me batty. Matthew and Diana went back to the past and stomped around on history, and it had no affect on the future.
Next up, I'm going to read Uprooted by Naomi Novik. If I enjoy that I'll probably give the Temeraire books a try. Has anyone read those?
I keep hearing about the Temeraire books in fandom, but I haven't tried them yet. I'd be interested in what you think, Rayne.
I've read a bunch of them, and really liked them despite neither genre being really my thing. (Two genres=Napoleonic wars, dragons.)