Buffy ,'Touched'
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."
Have not read it, Calli. What's it about?
I just finished The Lace Reader which was intriguing. I love the fact that from the very first you know that Towner will be a totally unreliable narrator and as you go through the entire story, you are questioning what is real and what isn't. At some point, I gave up the ghost and just really decided to let her narration be the "truth" of the story. But then you hit the end and it's all whoa. Beautifully done, but sad and disturbing. Highly recommend.
The Alchemy of Stone is a sort of steampunkish novel about an emancipated, intelligent automaton who is also an alchemist. She's only partially independent, though, because she has to be wound up every few months, and her maker has her key. The story is set in a sort of middle European country with the usual melange of computers and corsets of a steampunk novel, although less directly Victorian than some. The book is engagingly plotty, with interesting characters, and some lovely passages and conflicts.
Ok, so I am in Minneapolis, right? Guess where I might get to go tomorrow??
WALNUT GROVE!!!
Redemption of Nellie Olsen, here I come!!
Cool! I know that the underground house on Plum Creek is long gone (I don't even think a depression is left in the bank), but there should be some tourist-y things to do there.
I remember reading that you can go visit where the underground house used to be -- the people who own the land have a path and a sign there.
Looking for Ann of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic.
Which contains a link to Oops! NY Times reviews which were completely off the mark on enduring classics.
Joss Whedon is among the 'experts' used in the trailer for Brad Meltzer's upcoming title, Book of Lies.
Which sounds pretty cool. I didn't know he wrote novels.
Meltzer? Yeah. He writes thrillers. They're so-so. Amusing fanboy moments (chacters with obscure-ish comic book names), less amusing gender issue stuff (needs a whap with a clue stick at times), writing varying between the solid and the clunky, but never hitting sublime.
Rucka's novels are better.
Rucka's novels are better.
Of course they are.
::drifting off into haze of Rucka nostalgia::