Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
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.
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.
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.)
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!).
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
Aw.
An e-mail containing the most astounding news just surfaced in my inbox, still dripping wet from the great oceanic Interweb. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., you know who he is, has a new novel out this September. It's called Anathem. Below, lovingly hand-transcribed, is the catalog copy:
Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians—sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides that only these cloistered scholars have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his cohorts are summoned forth without warning into the Unknown.
DH is going to be so happy
Ooh! I hope I'll be able to lift this one with one hand!
Cool! And what Jessica said.