So help me god, I want to read one or two of those...I never owned SVH as a kid--it was the sort of books we read at a relative's house.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
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."
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2008 8:22:51 am PDT #5403 of 28374
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Mar 27, 2008 8:25:56 am PDT #5404 of 28374
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I thought those books sucked when I was the target audience -- my best friend read them all, and I tried one or two and went back to my Agatha Christie.
Toddson - Mar 27, 2008 8:28:11 am PDT #5405 of 28374
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I missed the SVH fad - it was well after my time.
Susan, I thought about you a little while ago - I was watching a telenovela and they introduced an English character going by "Sir John Lancaster" and the people (in what was then Nueva Espana) kept referring to him as "Sir Lancaster" ... I kept thinking of how it would probably drive you crazy.
Amy - Mar 27, 2008 8:28:18 am PDT #5406 of 28374
Because books.
I "auditioned" to write for one of the SVH lines once, years ago. And then the chick who was my contact quit and moved on, and I got lost in the shuffle. I had never actually read them either.
Susan W. - Mar 27, 2008 8:35:25 am PDT #5407 of 28374
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, I thought about you a little while ago - I was watching a telenovela and they introduced an English character going by "Sir John Lancaster" and the people (in what was then Nueva Espana) kept referring to him as "Sir Lancaster" ... I kept thinking of how it would probably drive you crazy.
Oh, definitely!
Incidentally, I may have finally found a satisfactory page turner--I'm three chapters along in Conn Iggulden's GENGHIS: BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE, and so far it's well-written, albeit testosteroney, even for me. Ah, well. Jo Beverley has a new release coming out, so I know I'll get to read a good romance soon.
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2008 10:14:03 am PDT #5408 of 28374
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
She was a poor relation governess to her cousin's spoiled brat child but made him a model child within days. The hero was a good 15 years older than her, with prematurely steel-gray hair and slate-gray eyes, and he was all crusty and masterly until won over by her spunky good nature.
Hey! Which one is it? And which publisher?
A friend of mine recently got into romances.
As I haven't read one in... years, now, I packed up ten bags of them and delivered them to her doorstep.
Susan W. - Mar 27, 2008 10:17:44 am PDT #5409 of 28374
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Hey! Which one is it? And which publisher?
A very old Signet called THE SERGEANT MAJOR'S DAUGHTER. I think the author was Sheila Walsh.
P.M. Marc - Mar 27, 2008 10:35:48 am PDT #5410 of 28374
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am 99.99% certain I have read it. (First, because it sounds familiar; second, because in my early teens, I loved Sheila Walsh. I'm not sure why, now.)
Kathy A - Mar 27, 2008 10:42:21 am PDT #5411 of 28374
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm thinking about pulling out some of my old time-travel romances for a reread. I love both the well-known titles, such as Devereaux's A Knight in Shining Armor, as well as the unknowns, such as Nancy Block's Once Upon a Pirate (I think that's the only book she ever had published, which is too bad, because it's excellent), Amy Fetzer's My Timeswept Heart and Timeswept Rogue, and Maggie Shayne's Miranda's Viking (frozen Viking found in the tundra!).
Laga - Mar 27, 2008 4:16:57 pm PDT #5412 of 28374
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've been goading my Mom to just pick up Time Traveler's Wife and start reading and give it back to me if she doesn't like it because I'm ready for my third read-through. I just got this from her via email:
have met Clare and Henry..........they've got me