Kathy - is that the one about the blood brothers?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Yep. I did what I shouldn't have and started reading it at about 1:00 am. Big mistake. I finished it around 5:00 and am now reeaaaalllly tired.
It's a really good one, but strangely lacking in the big oomph finish. I think it suffers from Act Two syndrome in that way (see: Two Towers movie). I liked all the character stuff, especially with the male lead (Fox, the lawyer son of the hippie organic farmers). Nora Roberts is always so good with her male characters, and he's probably one of her better-drawn ones of recent years.
I've had the first one for a while but for some reason - okay - possibly just because I haven't been reading at all - didn't get into until the past few days. So, I can go looking for the second one right away.
I had a Buffista flashback while reading it--Fox's gay sister asks him if he'll donate for the child she and her partner want to have, which made me think of a certain Chicagoista!
Hah!
Has anyone ever read anything by Karen Miller? I'm about 20 pages into Empress, the first book in a fantasy trilogy. I haven't yet decided whether I'm hooked enough to finish it, and it gets interestingly mixed reviews on Amazon.com.
Give it up. Read La Chartreuse de Parme instead!! or War and Peace !
I put The Charterhouse of Parma on my library list! And I've decided to buy War and Peace with the Borders card my boss gave me for Administrative Professionals Day, as soon as I figure out which translation to get!
Read The Education of Henry Adams. He has a lot to say about how Jacksonian Democracy was bringing about the end of civilization.
(I'll use any excuse to talk about Henry Adams, but he was particularly horrified by populism.)
The new Penguin editions of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels: [link]