It's really excellent. I can't articulate what I want to say about it, but it was really...touching...or something. Anyway, I loved it.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
EpicTangent - Feb 07, 2017 3:11:21 pm PST #24318 of 28260
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Calli - Feb 07, 2017 3:14:39 pm PST #24319 of 28260
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway
I love it! I recommended it to my book group, and most of them loved it, too. At least one of them has started reading McGuire's other works because of it.
Susan W. - Feb 07, 2017 3:41:09 pm PST #24320 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I read it several months back and loved it.
DebetEsse - Feb 07, 2017 5:04:18 pm PST #24321 of 28260
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm working my way through Toby Daye, and I'll probably pick it up after that.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2017 7:45:34 pm PST #24322 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just finished Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway. I checked back in the thread, but the only mention I saw of it was when Steph's library hold came in. Anybody else read it?
I haven't read it but I've been thinking about it after reading its premise, because that same premise is a big part of several fantasy books of recent vintage. Like, The Magicians, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Boat of Her Own Making. Even in the movie Return to Oz, there's that damage of returning from the magical experience and being disbelieved. Made me also think of Jonathan Carroll's Land of Laughs.
Something meta that a generation of writers have taken over from their experience as readers. Fanficcy in a way - wanting to comment on the text, address it. Midrash, as Amych and I once discussed that concept.
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2017 2:22:11 am PST #24323 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
that same premise is a big part of several fantasy books of recent vintage. Like, The Magicians, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship of Her Own Making
Interesting! though I'm not sold on that being the premise of the Valente books.
Kate P. - Feb 08, 2017 2:34:43 am PST #24324 of 28260
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Re: the Valente books, it's not the whole premise, but it's a big part of the first book in particular, and was one of the things that made me love that book so much.
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2017 2:53:32 am PST #24325 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
a big part of the first book in particular, and was one of the things that made me love that book so much.
Ah yes, absolutely this - got it (and coffee now too).
Just learned how to shut comments off on the YouTube. It has been a morning.
Strix - Feb 08, 2017 6:37:18 am PST #24326 of 28260
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've read it, and loved it. Another book on the twins is out this year.
EpicTangent - Feb 08, 2017 7:22:40 am PST #24327 of 28260
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I haven't read it but I've been thinking about it after reading its premise, because that same premise is a big part of several fantasy books of recent vintage. Like, The Magicians, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Boat of Her Own Making. Even in the movie Return to Oz, there's that damage of returning from the magical experience and being disbelieved. Made me also think of Jonathan Carroll's Land of Laughs.
I read The Magicians trilogy, but I'll have to look into the other two you listed. Interesting how the premise resonates. Wonder why it took until now to acknowledge how many of us grew up looking for our wardrobe or our rabbit hole?
I was drawn in by the premise (and by being a fan of Seanan, obv), but I was surprised by the direction it went. But I LOVED it (a bit disappointed in the ending, but just a bit).
I've read it, and loved it. Another book on the twins is out this year.
I KNOW! So EXCITE!
ION: Goodreads has added a "Re-read" status! I'm very pleased!