Perhaps I should admit that I dragged my feet over reading A Memory Called Empire for quite a long time because my grandmother's second husband was named Arkady and that association was enough to put me off. Don't be making marketing decisions based on how I'm going to respond, that way lies nothing good for anyone
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
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."
-t - Mar 25, 2021 12:16:58 pm PDT #26572 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
amyparker - Mar 25, 2021 12:34:27 pm PDT #26573 of 27939
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
I've just had a look at my bookshelves and with the exceptions of Tolkien and Adams (that copy of Redshirts is Jim's), all of the adult fiction is by women. The children's hardbacks are their own thing.
meara - Mar 25, 2021 12:39:25 pm PDT #26574 of 27939
Swords AND spaceships? Hmmm....tell me more.
amyparker - Mar 25, 2021 1:04:17 pm PDT #26575 of 27939
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
It's Patricia Kennealy Morrison's Keltiad. Don't judge me. Out of print and not available as ebooks, I don't know that SPL would have copies? I found mine years ago trawling used bookstores.
Toddson - Mar 25, 2021 1:24:04 pm PDT #26576 of 27939
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think I may have read one of that series ... but it would have been a LONG time ago.
meara - Mar 25, 2021 1:38:13 pm PDT #26577 of 27939
Oh yes, I think I probably read those in high school, it rings a bell.
amyparker - Mar 25, 2021 2:47:41 pm PDT #26578 of 27939
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
Yeah, the last in the initial trilogy came out in '89, and gives the titles of the next books with these characters - as the author turned 75 this month, I think it's unlikely they'll see print. She's also said that as a series, they didn't earn enough to be worth taking time away from paid work to edit them for reissue in electronic format.
(Also also, they are heteronormative AF and I would likely have stopped at one if I were encountering them for the first time as an adult?)
Consuela - Mar 26, 2021 8:04:58 am PDT #26579 of 27939
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, I read at least some of those, amyparker, back in the day. She's the rather unusual woman who was married to Jim Morrison for a hot minute, yeah?
It's King Arthur space fantasy, right?
We read Tomorrow Will be Better by Betty Smith for book club this month, and although it's nowhere near as famous as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I really appreciated it. Everyone is rather desperately poor, and there's both emotional and physical child abuse, but the characters are well-drawn and interesting even when they're awful. And there's a lot of meaty stuff around class and gender, and even a bit of racial consciousness (there's only one POC in the book). I didn't love it, but I thought it was well-done and held up a solid conversation in book club last night.
amyparker - Mar 26, 2021 10:21:43 am PDT #26580 of 27939
In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.
That's a lovely way of putting it, Suela - I would have gone with "what an interesting backstory she has".
The middle trilogy is straight up "King Arthur in SPACE!"; the first is set a few thousand years later and features one of his female descendants.
sj - Mar 26, 2021 2:14:08 pm PDT #26581 of 27939
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Beverly Cleary has passed away at the age of 104. [link]