I replaced my lost copy of Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October with a hard cover. Given the prices I saw online, this book is getting hard to find--at least in the original cover--and it's such a glorious book.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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 - Sep 12, 2018 4:01:15 pm PDT #25178 of 28197
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Gris - Sep 12, 2018 4:19:04 pm PDT #25179 of 28197
Hey. New board.
I think Big Boned is the third or fourth in a series, msbelle. The conceit was definitely getting a bit stale by then, but the original, Size 12 is Not Fat, is among my favorite in that genre of light fun Meg Cabot fare.
I basically like everything Meg Cabot writes for both children or adults in exactly the way you described, but if you decide to dive in again I think Boy Next Door is probably my favorite. E-mail epistolary style, which isn't everybody's cup of tea, but it works for me.
msbelle - Sep 12, 2018 4:23:45 pm PDT #25180 of 28197
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thanks.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2018 6:02:43 pm PDT #25181 of 28197
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I (once again) read through the new Anne Rice book in one day. And was ready to flip every table in the world over a plot line, but she fixed it. This means I don't have to sulk in a nest of grief made from my velvet frock coats.
Calli - Oct 08, 2018 4:09:23 am PDT #25182 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just finished The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, and I really enjoyed it. The prose was beautiful, and I enjoyed the character development.
msbelle - Oct 11, 2018 3:49:54 pm PDT #25183 of 28197
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Posting in here and in literary. I volunteer at my local library putting out donated books and discarded library books for sale. We are kinda over run with juvie and teen books and so if anyone has favorite authors and will cover 50cent pb or $1 hc, I am happy to look through and send you all you want. Also if anyone just in general has a book or books they are looking for, I am happy to keep and eye out.
sj - Oct 12, 2018 8:42:37 am PDT #25184 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm still volunteering at my local library bookstore too (which carries a bit of everything), and am happy to look around for people.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2018 6:57:26 am PDT #25185 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can the hivemind help me track down a Halloween-themed short story? I read it a few years ago in an anthology of horror or generally scary stories. It's about a children's scary book author (female, middle aged or elderly) who gives a Halloween reading at a library and then seems to be ambiguously haunted by the unseen fictional mischievous boy character she's famous for. It's told in first person, had a feel that vaguely reminded me of Thomas Ligotti's work. Sadly I cannot recall title, author, or any of the proper names in the story.
I'd thought it might be in one of Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror collections, but I haven't been able to turn it up in any of the ones at my library and it would have to be in some book I ran across there at one point.
sj - Oct 26, 2018 7:26:09 am PDT #25186 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It doesn't sound familiar, Matt.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 8:51:34 am PDT #25187 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's about a children's scary book author (female, middle aged or elderly) who gives a Halloween reading at a library and then seems to be ambiguously haunted by the unseen fictional mischievous boy character she's famous for. It's told in first person, had a feel that vaguely reminded me of Thomas Ligotti's work. Sadly I cannot recall title, author, or any of the proper names in the story.
That is a Ligotti story. I just read it this last year in his reissued collection with Penguin.
Let me see if I can find the title.