Oh, excellent. I think I will hustle up and get it in a few minutes. B&Noble is only 3 blocks from my apartment.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 12:36:55 pm PDT #2433 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Steph L. - Mar 30, 2007 12:38:47 pm PDT #2434 of 28175
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm very much emotionally invested in the HP books, and would like the final book right NOW please, thankyouverymuch.
LOOK! LOOK! I'm Jilli!
I kinda hate that the covers have been released, because it just makes waiting that. much. harder.
And then, it's going to all be over. Like the end of Buffy. (Or maybe more like the end of Angel.) And THAT makes me want the book to never be released, so that the story can't end.
But then I *need* to know what happens....
Aims - Mar 30, 2007 12:39:36 pm PDT #2435 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
LOOK! LOOK! I'm also Steph!!
...
Damn. I am teh hott.
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 12:42:08 pm PDT #2436 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
And then, it's going to all be over.
Take that back!
(Can you tell that I'm still living in the very pleasant fantasyland where J.K. Rowling will go on to write novels about Hogwarts during the Marauders' era? Does it show much?)
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2007 12:42:23 pm PDT #2437 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just didn't care about the characters, and the book barely held my interest.
It took me forever to read. I started Swordspoint after Fledgling and finished it first. It wasn't much of anything except a huge disappointment.
And I own it in hardcover. It's a bit harder to BookX those, emotionally.
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 1:15:12 pm PDT #2438 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have accomplished Bookage. I am back in the nightie (oh, sweet blissful softness of aged silk!) and I have foie gras with sauternes, chevre du miel and margarita cookies.
I splurged. But not killing someone is emotionally exhausting. I needed it.
I will be back to discuss with you tomorrow, Jilli. Yea, new book by author I really like. She popped this out FAST.
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:20:19 pm PDT #2439 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
She popped this out FAST.
I went to the reading she did here in Seattle on Wed. night, and she said the next one is already at the publisher.
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 1:23:22 pm PDT #2440 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Holy shit! Dayum, girl! But that's awesome news.
How was the reading?
Beverly - Mar 30, 2007 1:25:00 pm PDT #2441 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pimps. I just ordered the first two Harrisons used off the internet. I loved Greywalker and I'm enjoying His Majesty's Dragon and have the next two set to go, and the first two Dresdens after that. But the Harrisons sounded so *good*!
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:28:16 pm PDT #2442 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
How was the reading?
It was fun. She's good with a crowd. I will admit, there were a couple ladies there who were shining examples of every bad media cliché of women who read vaguely smutty vampire fiction. (I kept wanting to go up to them and say "Look, it's possible to look vaguely gothy AND polished when you are a larger woman who is no longer in her teen years. Here, let me fix your eyeliner." I am a bad and somewhat petty person. But I controlled myself.)
The thing that impressed me most from the reading is that Kim Harrison doesn't really do any sort of occult/witchy research for her books; she makes most of it up. Considering how well it all holds together, I was amazed she didn't do tons of spoooooky research.