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'Time Bomb'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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Ginger - Apr 30, 2008 2:01:21 pm PDT #5583 of 28344

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Jennifer Crusie and Janet Evanovich are both good convalescent reads, because they're entertaining but not intellectually demanding.

Other series you might like include one's by Jane Langton, set in Concord and often referencing Concord's writers; Anne Perry (I'm partial to the William Monk books, set in London in the early 19th century.); and Linda Barnes and Laura Lippman. Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael books are good and usually soothing, in that the violence is usually off screen and often unintended, plus her pictures of a 12th century monastery seems so real. Josephine Tey's "The Daughter of Time" is excellent for convalescence, since the main character becomes obsessed with solving solving the mystery of Richard III and the little princes while convalescing.

Kathy A - Apr 30, 2008 2:03:27 pm PDT #5584 of 28344

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Josephine Tey's "The Daughter of Time" is excellent for convalescence, since the main character becomes obsessed with solving solving the mystery of Richard III and the little princes while convalescing.

This is most excellent! Also along the same line is the Inspector Morse book by Colin Dexter called "The Wench Is Dead." Morse is in hospital for an ulcer and solves a Victorian murder from the bed.

Jesse - Apr 30, 2008 2:16:44 pm PDT #5585 of 28344

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I like Jan Burke's Irene Kelly series -- they're pretty easy. And am obsessed with Lee Child, but they are thrillers, not mysteries.

Did anyone mention Dorothy Sayers yet?

Pix - Apr 30, 2008 2:22:41 pm PDT #5586 of 28344

The status is NOT quo.

I love you all to pieces. I've read some of what you've listed (the J.D. Robb series and Anne Perry husband/wife series are two of my favorites) , but there are lots up there I've never even heard of. Rock! I will have to send ND to the library or book store tomorrow.

-t - Apr 30, 2008 3:11:54 pm PDT #5587 of 28344

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I really like Margaret Maron, both the Judge Knott series and the Sigrid Harald series (which is, I believe, complete so you could conceivably read it all and not have to go looking for more) though her stand-alones might be the best.

And I love me some M. Didius Falco. I was just thinking yesterday that one of the things I like about that series is that the cases can be wildly different kinds of mysteries.

DavidS - Apr 30, 2008 3:22:30 pm PDT #5588 of 28344

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Awww, Flannery O'Conner could've been a Buffista:

O'Connor described herself as a "pigeon-toed only child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you complex." When O'Connor was five she taught a chicken to walk backwards, and it was this that led to her first experience of being a celebrity. The Pathé News people filmed "Little Mary O'Connor" with her trained chicken, and showed the film around the country. She said, "That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. It's all been downhill from there."

§ ita § - Apr 30, 2008 3:23:58 pm PDT #5589 of 28344

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Flannery O'Conner could've been a Buffista

Take that back. I was never that miserable.

amych - Apr 30, 2008 3:25:13 pm PDT #5590 of 28344

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you

New tag! And she's dead, so she can't say no.

sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 3:31:41 pm PDT #5591 of 28344

Nevada Barr's mysteries. Murder and mayhem in the national parks, featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon. She does a good job of capturing the atmosphere of the locations.

meara - Apr 30, 2008 3:36:30 pm PDT #5592 of 28344

I definitely second Nevada Barr's, though I warn you that several of them will really make you want to VISIT the national parks!!

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