'Selfless'
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."
YES THIS.
OKAY SO WHAT DO YOU THINK. (Massive Head Full of Ghosts spoilers follow.) Like, obviously all the coldness in the final scene is supposed to IMPLY that the demon was in her all along, but it could just be the air conditioning, right? WHO KNOWS. I want to believe there was a demon because it's more fun but would that make HORRIFYING PASTA more or less fucked up.
I think that the ending was a shout-out to the only book he hadn't namechecked, which I was waiting for, We Have Always Lived In The Castle.
But I also think it implies that the demon was in her at least for a while, and that's why she had to be present at the exorcism (to get the demon handoff). I don't know if it was ALWAYS in her (breaks the trope of teenage girl) or in both of them (also not trope, but textual support in the observation that you can't tell the sisters apart).
Oh, I haven't read that but I've been meaning to!
And I hadn't thought of the demon actually being in the little sister and moving to her. HMM. Interesting!
I keep going back and forth between that, and maybe the more high-concept approach that Marjorie was going crazy because of access to information. Like maybe the whole point of the story is that too much information is bad for the human brain.
But then there's the coldness, and the idea that any demon worth its salt (SPN joke) would play the long game and always keep people guessing and generally do a better job of lying than in other books.
I woke up this morning wondering if Marjorie's possession vector was texting, in parallel to Regan getting possessed via Ouija board.
Aw, Jo Beverly. That's sad.
I just started reading A Head Full of Ghosts. I'm glad it's a discussion starter!
Roberta Gellis also died earlier this month - [link] . Not a good month for historical romance writers.
Have ordered A Head Full of Ghosts... Book discussion!
Jo Beverly and Roberta Gelis. Oh, my. I knew Jo a little: I was on a Dunnett mailing list with her for some years. Very nice, smart woman.
In other news, I just finished Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs, which was GREAT. Has anyone read this? It reads like Kate Elliott & Alan Furst had a kid, who was then raised by N. K. Jemisin. So good.
In other news, I just finished Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs, which was GREAT. Has anyone read this? It reads like Kate Elliott & Alan Furst had a kid, who was then raised by N. K. Jemisin. So good.
Loved it, my favorite book of 2014. City of Blades is also really good. Looking forward to City of Miracles.
For those who have read it, is A Head Full of Ghosts something that would work well as an audiobook? I was about to order it, but saw the comparison to House of Leaves and wondered if that meant I'd be better off with the physical book.