I was going to pick up one of the Harrisons one day, but I'm still slogging through Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, and I'm stuck on Industrial Magic. I thought Dimestore Magic was a bit overwrought, even for a magical world, but her tone is so ... flat. I don't know. I loved the two books with Elena the werewolf, but the witches are so far leaving me cold.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
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."
Amy - Mar 30, 2007 1:42:59 pm PDT #2447 of 28175
Because books.
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:47:09 pm PDT #2448 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
AmyLiz, I didn't like Industrial Magic either. It seemed like it should be the sort of book I'd enjoy, but no. "Flat" is right.
(Insert standard Jilli rant about trying to find good paranormal fiction here)
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 1:48:05 pm PDT #2449 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am strongly "meh" on the Armstrong books. I think Harrison is much better.
DebetEsse - Mar 30, 2007 1:57:03 pm PDT #2450 of 28175
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Oooooh, Jilli, you need to pitch a self-improvement/makeover show to Sci-Fi. I bet they're looking for something like that to air 8 times a day. They could pair you up with someone more classically geeky and make-over geeks who lack that certain put-together-ness, while still keeping their identity intact.
I was actually less affected by Dumbledore than I was by Sirius. Partly based on degree of expectation. Partly because I was hunting clues even as I was reading HBP.
Beverly - Mar 30, 2007 2:02:37 pm PDT #2451 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
good paranormal fiction
Okay, I have to ask. Somebody gave me the first two Rowan Gant novels by M.R. Sellars, Harm None and Never Burn a Witch. Has anybody read any of these? And (stands back, drops match) do you have an opinion on them?
Aims - Mar 30, 2007 2:17:58 pm PDT #2452 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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?
I can only see it because I am so with you. I would love to see a non-Harry prequel series. With a young Mr and Mrs Weasley.
And a young Minerva.
Than again, I also want to shag the living daylights out of Alan Rickman in his Snape robes, so let's take bets on which has a better chance of happening.
Amy - Mar 30, 2007 2:30:06 pm PDT #2453 of 28175
Because books.
I can only see it because I am so with you. I would love to see a non-Harry prequel series. With a young Mr and Mrs Weasley.
That and Lily and James and young Snape...
Let's write it for her.
Than again, I also want to shag the living daylights out of Alan Rickman in his Snape robes
I'd prefer to do it with him *out* of the robes, but whatever floats your boat. I'll take Rickman any way I can get him.
Aims - Mar 30, 2007 2:31:35 pm PDT #2454 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'd prefer to do it with him *out* of the robes, but whatever floats your boat. I'll take Rickman any way I can get him.
Well, I'm wearing my Hufflepuff robes, so it all works out. In my sick little mind, anyway.
Aims - Mar 30, 2007 2:36:31 pm PDT #2455 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
wonders if she revealed juuuuust a bit too much about her little AR kink
Amy - Mar 30, 2007 2:41:15 pm PDT #2456 of 28175
Because books.
Hey, robes are good.
::back away slowly...::