'Harm's Way'
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."
Of all the details (SO MANY DETAILS) in that whole fuckety-upety thing, the completely made up second doctorate before age 30 in Munchhausen studies was the most.
I liked the author who keeps using him as the model for psychopathic characters and then saying he's always been good to her.
His super bullshitty not-apology about getting caught out on the cancer lies at the end was absolutely teeth grinding.
What a fucking liar.
The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh. And the PhD for studying Munchausens. OMG.
I think that book is one my parents sent home with me at Christmas. I probably don't need to read it now. I can't believe Tracy Letts is now tied to this mess.
I can't figure out how any employer would allow him to just not be there for months without any documentation.
Yeah, publishing can be loose, but that's really loose.
The "You're So Vain" working title made me laugh.
Hee.
I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie! I don't know how to feel about that.
I don't really see the point of authorized continuations of Agatha Christie.
Well, beloved characters.
I read the first Poirot one, and I literally can't remember if I finished it. Do not recommend.
I didn't really like the one Sophie Hannah book I tried, Little Face.
I'm reading Kate Atkinson's fourth Jackson Brodie book now, and I heard she's finally coming out with a new one this year (or next year?). I also have to get her latest non-Brodie book, Transcription.
I didn't know there were authorized continuations of Agatha Christie!
Me neither.
I don't know how to feel about that.
Me neither.
There are authorized continuations of Dorothy Sayers's Peter Whimsey novels (whose work I like a lot more than Christie's—feel free to come at me full muffuletta about it). One of them, Thones, Dominions, was created from a novel that Sayers had started. Jill Patton Walsh finished it. While I felt like I could see the seams between the two author's work, I felt the final novel was worth reading. And I was glad to spend a little more time with Lord and Lady Peter. Walsh has since published three more novels in Sayer's Whimsey-verse. I didn't read the last two, but that's more because I was distracted by something shiny than that Walsh sucks. She's not Sayers, but she does a solid job.
I read The Goblin Emperor and Consider Phlebas on the strength of awesome Yuletide fics based on them. I loved The Goblin Emperor so, so much I promptly re-read and then re-re-read it. I've given up on Consider Phlebas about halfway through and went back to the Imperial Radch series to get my sentient-ship fix.