I knew there had to be actual sparkling!!
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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."
Jesse - Aug 05, 2008 5:59:51 am PDT #6769 of 28385
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
lisah - Aug 05, 2008 6:02:49 am PDT #6770 of 28385
Punishingly Intricate
Black Swan Green is also delightful, although you should be forewarned that it's more of a straightforward narrative.
I like a straightforward narrative!
Fay - Aug 05, 2008 6:06:43 am PDT #6771 of 28385
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
They do indeed sparkle. God help us. That's why they don't go out in direct sunlight - because their twinklywinklysparklywarkly marble skin would be too glitteringly obvious.
sighs.
If she's into Twilight, she should check out Holly Black, Cassandra Clare (yes, that one) and Melissa Marr. Also Melissa de la Cruz. And although I've not yet read Claudia Gray's 'Evernight', I bloody love her writing and venture to suspect that the novel will be awesome.
t /stealthy attempt to point 14 year old intern to YA urban vampire/fairytale fic that ISN'T PANTS. And that features interesting young women complete with spines, initiative, agency and personality.
amych - Aug 05, 2008 6:07:56 am PDT #6772 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is there any downside to being a vampire in this verse?
It makes you rilly emo.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 6:10:04 am PDT #6773 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
(This is the same sort of thing that drove me insane with Time Traveler's Wife-- that and the horrible authorial intrusion.)
Barb, can you explain this wrt Time Traveler's Wife ? I know you didn't like it the way I did, but I'm not sure what you mean here.
Same here. I loved that book to pieces, and part of the reason was because Niffenegger was so internally consistent.
sj - Aug 05, 2008 6:19:12 am PDT #6774 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Is there any downside to being a vampire in this verse?
Well, he still can't go out in daylight because he's just too pretty or something.
amych - Aug 05, 2008 6:20:24 am PDT #6775 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Getting vamped makes you more of a Mary Sue than you already were.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 05, 2008 6:23:33 am PDT #6776 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Well, he still can't go out in daylight because he's just too pretty or something.
Oh my! I bet I would have LOVED this is 14, though
sj - Aug 05, 2008 6:28:55 am PDT #6777 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oh my! I bet I would have LOVED this is 14, though
That's why I am reading the first one. Because it makes me giggle endlessly and I can see that my junior high self would have thought it was the best thing ever.
Hil R. - Aug 05, 2008 6:34:58 am PDT #6778 of 28385
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm trying to remember what I was reading at 14. That would have been eighth or ninth grade? I read The Mists of Avalon the summer before eighth grade, and then spent the next few years reading anything Arthurian I could get my hands on. Plus Jude Devereaux, Quantum Leap novels, Mary Higgins Clark, and Stephen King. So yeah, I probably would have loved the sparkly vampires.