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.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
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."
sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 3:31:41 pm PDT #5591 of 28379
meara - Apr 30, 2008 3:36:30 pm PDT #5592 of 28379
I definitely second Nevada Barr's, though I warn you that several of them will really make you want to VISIT the national parks!!
amych - Apr 30, 2008 3:37:23 pm PDT #5593 of 28379
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
... and this is a problem, why?
(I mean, in the immediate, in-the-hospital time frame, yes, but...)
JZ - Apr 30, 2008 3:43:35 pm PDT #5594 of 28379
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Take that back. I was never that miserable.
She managed to write some memorably, spectacularly miserable characters, but Flannery herself wasn't miserable. I read all 700-some odd pages of her collected letters, and she really does come across as a Buffista before Buffistas were: snarky, sly, occasionally outright goofy, and equally capable of being mockingly delighted by the awfulness of kitsch and moved by the emotion behind it; full of geeky passions and delights; interested in the world outside her town and the universe inside her own mind. Sometimes a little terse when the lupus was excruciating, but often darkly witty even then.
Eloquent as Nutty and ita combined in her cold dissection of lousy writing and lazy logic; as simultaneously passionate and wry as Cindy writing about her faith; as irritated by, occasionally resentful of her dependency on, and kindred-spirit snarkily proud and loving of her mother as erika; tender in her notation of the green and growing and fruiting products of her land as Betsy; fiendish as MM in her elaborate scorn of hypocrites and monstrous fools; loyal to her friends as any Buffista, willing to sprint around the world for them when she couldn't walk to her own front door. And able to deliver a biting, delicious quip while she was at it.
For someone with one fuck of a lot to be miserable about, O'Connor was somehow really not so miserable at all.
t /just a teeny bit defensive of my biggest literary girlcrush
sarameg - Apr 30, 2008 3:57:44 pm PDT #5595 of 28379
will really make you want to VISIT the national parks!!
So very true! And if you've already been to one of those featured, you'll be all "OH! I remember that!"
Amy - Apr 30, 2008 3:59:07 pm PDT #5596 of 28379
Because books.
Ah, Big Spankable Asses. I'm so ... proud I was a part of that. ::slinks away in shame::
Bustin' got my vote. What even *is* that? Jesus.
Kink isn't too bad, really (although did Teppy say it was historical? Because, yeah, not getting that vibe *at all*) ... if you don't mind text-as-HUGE DICK imagery.
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2008 4:14:14 pm PDT #5597 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sarah Shankman.
Sharon McCrumb (the funny ones)
Scrappy - Apr 30, 2008 4:14:38 pm PDT #5598 of 28379
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
::totally loving on JZ for her brilliance.::
Dana - Apr 30, 2008 4:14:57 pm PDT #5599 of 28379
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sayers would have been a Buffista too.
Typo Boy - Apr 30, 2008 4:21:51 pm PDT #5600 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sayers would have been a Buffista too.
Her antisemitism and snobbery might have earned less than a perfectly friendly welcome.