And YA books not in the Discworld universe.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
-t - Jun 07, 2006 4:10:07 pm PDT #624 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2006 4:11:03 pm PDT #625 of 28095
Herding cats for fun
Alice Hoffman wrote a few YA books too, I believe (is too lazy to check).
Volans - Jun 07, 2006 8:25:20 pm PDT #626 of 28095
move out and draw fire
Right there with ya, Kathy.
Bookmarked "Portrait of Jennie"...but I like P-C's plot. I'm a total sucker for people going into paintings. There's a bit in one of The Dark is Rising books where Will goes into a photograph of an archaelogical dig to get a thing, and that may be my favorite image in a book ever.
I loved Hardy in high school. Voluntarily read all of them, except Jude. Went back to read Jude in my 20s and could not stand it.
That actually happened with me and a lot of authors...it's one of the reasons I think I became a completely different person in college.
Kate P. - Jun 08, 2006 6:30:30 am PDT #627 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Angela Carter wrote adult novels, a number of essays and pieces of literary criticism, and several books for children. Jeanette Winterson writes mostly novels for adults, but she also has a children's book and a new YA novel coming out later this month, about which I am tentatively excited. (Speaking of which, has anyone here read her latest novel, Lighthousekeeping ? Is it any good? I really didn't like the one before that, but I'm tempted to give this one a try, since she used to be one of my very favorite authors.)
aurelia - Jun 08, 2006 8:32:18 am PDT #628 of 28095
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Gregory Maguire has the Hamlet Chronicles series for children, which I'm pretty sure started before Wicked came out.
Mr. Broom - Jun 08, 2006 3:49:36 pm PDT #629 of 28095
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.Which is, pardon my editorial sneer, running the gamut of fiction.
(reads too much Language Log)
Kathy A - Jun 08, 2006 4:01:32 pm PDT #630 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just discovered Language Log (and bookmarked it) yesterday! Found it by following a link at Positive Anymore's blog, which I found through a Google search. Love reading people who are as language-obsessed as I am.
Mr. Broom - Jun 08, 2006 5:06:20 pm PDT #631 of 28095
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
And who despise Dan Brown as much as I do.
brenda m - Jun 08, 2006 6:45:47 pm PDT #632 of 28095
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Which is, pardon my editorial sneer, running the gamut of fiction.
Ahahaha! Oh yeah.
brenda m - Jun 10, 2006 5:12:02 am PDT #633 of 28095
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!
Also, just finished Cryptonomicon, which I loved. Though it's making me want to go back and brush up on my WWII history, particularly the Asian theatre, which I hadn't realized had gotten so vague.
Seriously, though, fabulous book. It's amazing how well the three-plus storylines intersect, and how well drawn they all are so that with each shift between them, you fall right back into that story without losing track of the rest. There were a couple of elements that felt off to me or that I had some quibbles with, but god, what a piece of work.
The parts of my brain which have been eaten by fandom are occupied with how Rodney McKay maps to Lawrence Waterhouse, but that's a story for another day.
And I'm delighted to see that the Shaftoe family (and possibly others) feature in Stephenson's next series.