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.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 28414
meara - Apr 30, 2008 3:36:30 pm PDT #5592 of 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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 28414
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.