'Serenity'
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."
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.
This is an older book, but I waited for it to be on sale at a reduced price and so I finished it recently. It took a while for me to get into it, but once I did it moved along. Basic story (set in the early 1800s) - a highly skilled chef, employed by a titled man who's the head of a trading company (kind of like the British East India Company) has a dinner party interrupted by pirates, accidentally gets himself into the middle of this, sees his employer killed, then is hauled off by the pirates. Their leader is a woman and she tells him that he will have to make her one delicious meal on Sunday or he'll be killed. It follows the adventures of the pirates, the chef having to come up with something wonderful with paltry food/seasonings and a cooking place that is woefully inadequate.