Three kids, two consonants!
Efficient!
And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.
Angelus ,'Damage'
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."
aurelia - Oct 05, 2017 1:30:44 pm PDT #24800 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Atropa - Oct 05, 2017 2:07:16 pm PDT #24801 of 28212
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 28212
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 28212
brillig
My favorite is Airs Above the Ground
bennett - Oct 05, 2017 6:36:44 pm PDT #24804 of 28212
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 28212
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 28212
brillig
Toasters for all!
Beverly - Oct 06, 2017 1:21:12 pm PDT #24807 of 28212
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.
aurelia - Oct 06, 2017 7:07:37 pm PDT #24808 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I got one since I've never read any of her stuff.
beth b - Oct 06, 2017 9:29:49 pm PDT #24809 of 28212
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just got two of my old favorites - This rough Magic and Moon spinners