Oh yes, I think I probably read those in high school, it rings a bell.
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
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."
meara - Mar 25, 2021 1:38:13 pm PDT #26577 of 28175
amyparker - Mar 25, 2021 2:47:41 pm PDT #26578 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
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 28175
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 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
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 28175
"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]
DavidS - Mar 26, 2021 2:14:31 pm PDT #26582 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And Larry McMurtry died as well.
Volans - Mar 26, 2021 5:05:08 pm PDT #26583 of 28175
move out and draw fire
Did you guys see this? It's from like 6 months back but I just saw it. Turkish garbage collectors build a library for abandoned books
Beverly - Mar 26, 2021 7:57:19 pm PDT #26584 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I did see the Turkish rescue library, and it gave me a warm glow.
Oh lawd, I did read some of that Morrison woman's books--see, her covers were done by Thomas Canty, and well you just can't throw Canty covers up on the shelf and not expect me to bite. I think I ran out of imaginative steam about midway book two, though. Those were not among the MMPBs that made the trek from NC.
-t - Mar 31, 2021 4:39:52 pm PDT #26585 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
...I seem to have caught up on my Allingham and now find myself reading Campion fic. I don't know why it never occurred to me that murder mystery fic might be a thing, but it didn't, and I am kind of bewildered to find myself here. I am considering reading the supposedly canonical fic written by her husband after her death, and possibly even the stuff by some other guy, but $8 a book is making that less attractive...
Beverly - Mar 31, 2021 4:53:10 pm PDT #26586 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Any PD James/Dalgleish fans about? I loved the PBS series with Ray Marsden--actually that's what led me to the books. Bit later than Campion, etc., 80s? I think? Possibly 90s? I do like James' writing.