Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Also, Jade Legacy and the entire Green Bone Saga is really good. Full of conflict and violence and tragedy so if you aren't up for those maybe wait for general conditions to improve before reading, but both emotionally involving and thought-provoking
ETA: perhaps some description would be in order. It’s sort of a fantasy mashup of wushu movies and The Godfather.
um ... it seemed like something some Buffistas might like, but I got an email from Hamilton books and they have a number of Anne Radcliffe's books (paperbound, not terribly expensive) in stock, as well as Varney the Vampire. (I'm slightly abashed to admit that I've read just about all of her books, although they didn't have my favorite: The Italian)
I found an Ursula K. LeGuin tribute in the form of a collection of stories called Dispatches from Anarres at the library today. I had no idea that this was happening.
The Green Bone Saga is one of my heart's favorites. Fonda Lee is a kickass delight.
I am having a hard time reading outside of student work (too many screens) but have been loving the paper version of Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars.
I loved that book! Music, demons, space aliens, doughnuts!!
I need to re-read that book. I went into it cold and was vastly confused for most of it. I think the 2nd read will be much better.
I'm loving it too. And now also (thx to a friend's rec) working through Red Comet, the brilliantly done Plath biography.
I started reading The Wife Upstairs last night, and I keep laughing out loud at the way the author has updated the Jane Eyre characters. My biggest problem with the book so far is that the main character isn't actually much like Jane Eyre, imho.
I read the first book of the Green Bone Saga, which I enjoyed, and I'm trying to decide if I should reread it before I read the next two.
sj, I started reading the third book when I got it and after maybe a chapter or 2 decided I had better re-read the first two as I did not remember who any of the characters were in relation to one another. Reading all 3 one after the other was very satisfying
Thanks, -t. Maybe I listen the first one on audiobook. I'm usually better about listening to a book I've already read than rereading it.