A Death in Two Parts is a really fun book. She started it sometime in the 60s and got bogged down, then found it in her papers in the early 2000s and finished it. She didn't rewrite the whole thing, left the first part as the typical "rescued by the cop who falls in love with her" thing, but the second half is a lot more cynical. Her introduction to it is a great commentary on how romances have changed.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
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."
Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2017 10:25:39 am PDT #24798 of 28216
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bennett - Oct 05, 2017 10:51:12 am PDT #24799 of 28216
Jane Aiken Hodge wrote more gothic romances - spooky castles, governesses, etc. - as I recall. Mary Stewart wrote more romantic suspense, except for Nine Coaches Waiting. I'm really looking forward to this reread.
aurelia - Oct 05, 2017 1:30:44 pm PDT #24800 of 28216
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Three kids, two consonants!
Efficient!
Atropa - Oct 05, 2017 2:07:16 pm PDT #24801 of 28216
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jane Aiken Hodge wrote more gothic romances - spooky castles, governesses, etc.
Women in nightgowns, fleeing ominous houses! One of my favorite genres! And I should check to see if any of her books are available digitally.
bennett - Oct 05, 2017 4:09:28 pm PDT #24802 of 28216
Yep - nightgowns and ominous houses. I think several of Jane Aiken Hodge's books are available in Kindle. A bunch of the titles on Amazon sound familiar, but I can't remember which were gothic-y and which were more romantic suspense.
The Mary Stewart that was gothic-y was "Nine Coaches Waiting". I remember it fondly but not in detail. My favorites were "Ivy Tree", "This Rough Magic", and "Madam Will You Talk". But they were all good.
Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2017 5:18:52 pm PDT #24803 of 28216
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My favorite is Airs Above the Ground
bennett - Oct 05, 2017 6:36:44 pm PDT #24804 of 28216
I have to finish a library book and then I can start re-reading them all.
Mind you, I have them all in hardback, I just prefer to do my bedtime reading on the Kindle where I can crank up the font size rather than wear my glasses.
Consuela - Oct 05, 2017 8:08:39 pm PDT #24805 of 28216
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You people made me just buy several Mary Stewart books. Damn you.
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2017 5:41:41 am PDT #24806 of 28216
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Toasters for all!
Beverly - Oct 06, 2017 1:21:12 pm PDT #24807 of 28216
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think Nine Coaches Waiting was my first foray out of kids' chapter books. I've been fond of Stewart ever since. There was a line in one of her books--I've forgotten which--that described a swift mountain stream as Alpine green water. A foreign concept, since in the southern US, most moving water is brown. I was somewhere in the Bavarian Alps when I looked down from a road's edge and saw a swift moving stream that was, in fact, Alpine green.