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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."
I'll have to reread my copy of Daughter of Time now. It's been so long since I read it that I don't remember that detail.
Along the lines of a modern-day detective solving an historical mystery he stumbles across while in the hospital, I always liked Colin Dexter's The Wench Is Dead, one of his Inspector Morse books. The TV adaptation of it was all right, but I prefered the book, myself.
You don't remember that Kathy? Grant gets a series of portraits of the major player in the case and makes some judgements more or less based on those.
Oh, yeah, now that you mention it. I only read it the one time, and it's been a long while since I did. I have read the Dexter book since then, and I remember that one more.
Once I get the HP rereading finished, I think I'll get through the rest of my recent purchases (Ragtime and Fatherland, to be specific) before heading over to the library and seeing what else grabs my attention. I got out of the reading habit since March while I've been working on my sister's wedding present, and probably should get my To-Be-Read pile reduced a bit before starting on a cross-stitch piece for myself (the To-Be-Stitched box has been around for at least 15 years since I quit working at Michael's--it's not going anywhere!).
I can't remember if I've read The Wench is Dead or not. No matter, I'll put it on my library list. I know I've read at least a few Morses and liked them.
Weird coincidence -- one of the original Nancy Drew movies from it looks like the '40s is just starting on TCM.
Question for people who've read Gaiman's Stardust: I'm thinking about buying the new illustrated edition as a present for someone. There aren't any Amazon reviews of that edition yet, but several of the reviews for the original edition mention a sex scene. How explicit is it, and if anyone has the illustrated edition, do the pictures get at all graphic? (The person I'm buying it for is rather prudish. Even something like bare breasts in an illustration would make me think twice about this. I glanced through it when I saw it in a bookstore, but just saw a few pictures and thought, "Oooh, pretty," without looking too closely.)
> How explicit is it,
Not at all, in my opinion. Far less explicit that most romance novels, probably.
and if anyone has the illustrated edition, do the pictures get at all graphic?
There's a picture of the two of them kissing, and then there is a picture (at a distance) of them in the woods at night. She's sitting on top of him, but all you see is his face, and her naked back legs.
I wouldn't think it would cause even a prudish person to raise their eyebrows and/or blush.
Weird coincidence -- one of the original Nancy Drew movies from it looks like the '40s is just starting on TCM.
No coincidence - TCM always does that with new movies coming out. I'm sure they knew a new Nancy Drew had opened.
I think she was pointing out that it coincided with our talking about Nancy Drew books, not with the movie coming out. Unless you're claiming TCM is planning all our conversations... are they listening right now?
Oh, so we could think of an old movie we'd like to see again and start discussing the book it was from here and then it would pop up on TCM. We would be doing their scheduling.