If this is the sort of thing you like, you will like this: Sherwood Smith discusses the literary history of the Regency romance. [link]
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Consuela - Nov 25, 2021 8:42:33 am PST #27188 of 28074
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-t - Nov 25, 2021 9:13:03 am PST #27189 of 28074
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Interesting. I just read my first Heyer recently, but it was a contemporary (at the time it was written) mystery. I’ve read some random regency romances here and there and found it a little odd how not like Austen they were while being very much like each other.
megan walker - Nov 25, 2021 10:07:20 am PST #27190 of 28074
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
aurelia - Nov 28, 2021 2:10:13 pm PST #27191 of 28074
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
my annual First Lines challenge
I got one this year! Woot!
megan walker - Nov 29, 2021 12:45:43 pm PST #27192 of 28074
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Here are the rest of the answers to my First Lines challenge: [link]
And here's hoping I read a lot more books next year so as to have a wider selection!
Sophia Brooks - Nov 30, 2021 5:03:38 am PST #27193 of 28074
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I knew I read number 3 and I am kicking myself over number 5, which I was 100 percent sure was Agatha Christie. I must have read that book 100 times, but probably not in 35 years!
Toddson - Nov 30, 2021 6:12:18 am PST #27194 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I only guessed a couple of those ... but I already have a towering TBR pile (not including my e-books), so I'm not going to expand it (I am vaguely intrigued by Graham Green ... I remember reading somewhere that he was dragged into court over his review of a Shirley Temple movie, Wee Willie Winkey, in which he suggested there was something not-quite-nice about a British regiment doting on a little girl). He lost, the review was expunged; Green did keep the last surviving copy of the review in his apartment and THAT was lost when his apartment was destroyed in the Blitz.
As an amusing first-line experience, at my old job there was a man who was friendly with me; we'd talk about books sometimes. One time, I asked him what he was reading and he said it was an old book, I probably wouldn't recognize it ... then gave me the title. I responded with the first line of the novel, "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad" (Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini). He was properly impressed ... whether with the range of my reading or the (lack of) quality. (It's one of the great first lines.)
DavidS - Nov 30, 2021 9:06:54 am PST #27195 of 28074
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I responded with the first line of the novel, "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad"
Excellent!
Toddson - Nov 30, 2021 12:08:26 pm PST #27196 of 28074
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, seriously - isn't that one of the best opening lines ever?
And another, we should mostly know, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Steph L. - Nov 30, 2021 12:13:17 pm PST #27197 of 28074
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Little Women! ("...grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.") I re-read that almost every year.