See, I'd pick "It Happened One Wedding" (bad, cheesy airbrushing!) or possibly "Bustin'" (dorky!).
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
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."
Steph L. - Apr 30, 2008 9:33:58 am PDT #5572 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesse - Apr 30, 2008 9:44:53 am PDT #5573 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bustin' was totally the worst! Although the one with the crazy smooshed breast implant almost got me.
Pix - Apr 30, 2008 12:48:00 pm PDT #5574 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Book lovers, I need hospital book reads. I'm looking for mysteries with good plots and interesting characters. Easy reads for my convalescence. To give you a sense of my tastes, I've read and loved all of Elizabeth George, the alphabet mysteries, the Mary Russell and other series by that author, most of Patricia Cornwall, Agatha Christie, and the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show. Help a girl out?
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2008 12:59:30 pm PDT #5575 of 28344
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the series that became Bones, though I found the books dry compared to the TV show
Which seems weirdly appropriate, considering (generalizations derived from TV show only) Brennan-as-author-avatar on her own isn't as interesting as Brennan surrounded by her cronies.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2008 1:20:48 pm PDT #5576 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How about the books that became the series Wire In the Blood by Val McDermid? It's got a messed up university psychologist profiler who helps out the local gritty police chief.
Kathy A - Apr 30, 2008 1:22:52 pm PDT #5577 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Eileen Dreyer writes excellent murder mysteries. The early ones are pretty much all set in hospitals, and the later ones deal more with forensics. (Eileen was a burnt-out trauma nurse when she started writing romances in the mid-'80s, and then went back to school for her certificate in forensics about 7-8 years ago.) My favorite of hers is "Nothing Personal"--very dark humor that kept me giggling throughout and also made it a fave of my nurse mom and her fellow nursing friends.
Also, while on vacation I lent my mom my copy of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" while I finally got around to reading its sequel, "Angel of Darkness." Both of these are fantastic if you haven't read them already.
In not-mystery recs, if you haven't read "The Time Traveler's Wife," well, why haven't you? Great read if a little dizzying in the different time streams.
Pix - Apr 30, 2008 1:43:41 pm PDT #5578 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks! The Eileen Dreyer books sound good. Yes, I've read The Alienest and TTTW. Both good, though not as fluffy as I'm looking for now.
Scrappy - Apr 30, 2008 1:46:44 pm PDT #5579 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Dana - Apr 30, 2008 1:47:23 pm PDT #5580 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
For mysteries in the Christie style (but with better writing and characterization), I like Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn mysteries and Ellis Peters' Inspector George Felse.
Kathy A - Apr 30, 2008 1:48:08 pm PDT #5581 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
How about JD Robb, aka Nora Roberts? "Naked in Death" is the first of the series, and a lot of people love them.