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.
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.
Beverly Cleary has passed away at the age of 104. [link]
And Larry McMurtry died as well.
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
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.
...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...
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.
I liked Cordelia Gray a lot but have an irrational dislike of Adam Dalgliesh. And Children of Men made me very angry and I have held that against James.
Oh yes, thumbs down on Children of Men.
