My favorite thing about Nora Roberts is her ability to write believable male characters. So many romance authors have a hard time coming up with convincing heroes, whereas she's able to produce guys similar to ones I know in close guy relationships as well as romantic ones.
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
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."
Kathy A - Aug 07, 2008 9:14:27 pm PDT #6906 of 28385
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ginger - Aug 08, 2008 3:21:59 am PDT #6907 of 28385
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
At her constant urging, I did read A Game of Kings and I have the rest of the Lymond Chronicles. I enjoyed it, but I realized it needed the kind of concentration, attention span and uninterrupted reading time I had at 15. I'm now saving them until I retire and can spend uninterrupted days with them. I think the golden age of LotR is also 15-20.
Kat - Aug 08, 2008 4:56:29 am PDT #6908 of 28385
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
One last piece of Breaking Dawn snark. Spoilery if that matters to you.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2008 6:12:25 pm PDT #6909 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm now saving them until I retire
Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.
Gadget_Girl - Aug 08, 2008 7:26:16 pm PDT #6910 of 28385
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Wow. That's ... long-term planning, Ginger.
In this, Ginger is my hero.
Sheryl - Aug 10, 2008 12:11:54 pm PDT #6911 of 28385
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Just a quick post to say that "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" won the Hugo for Best Novel.
Strix - Aug 10, 2008 4:59:07 pm PDT #6912 of 28385
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am about 3/4 through with Halfway in the GraVe by Jeaniene Frost. New author to me, but I like it well enough to have already downloaded the sequel for reading tomorrow night.
Her main male character, Bones, is engaging, but is...well, kinda Spike with a conscience. I mean, really.
It gets off to a shaky start, but the prose and characterization firms up and it starts to move nicely. We shall see. I'm not in love, but it's certainly entertaining.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2008 6:34:20 pm PDT #6913 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm reading cleolinda's recap of "Twilight" and I'm dying. Man, that's some funny shit.
Now I really have no interest in reading the book.
Steph L. - Aug 10, 2008 6:40:11 pm PDT #6914 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
le nubian, I have to admit that I read Cleolinda's recap of the most recently released Twilight book, and despite how back the book sounds from her recap, I put the first one on hold at the library.
I feel dirty.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2008 6:53:30 pm PDT #6915 of 28385
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it has got to be a more entertaining read AFTER cleo's recap though.