Wow, that sounds cool! And I might need to get that Sherlock Holmes, too, even though I have the original annotated as well.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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."
Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2008 7:09:16 am PDT #7003 of 28388
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Kate P. - Aug 22, 2008 7:30:35 am PDT #7004 of 28388
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Has anyone read Tana French's book In the Woods ? I finished it late last night and thought it was frantabulous.
Not yet, Kat, but it's been on my TBR list for a few months. Do you think it could have crossover YA appeal? I tend to read books quicker if there's a chance I can booktalk them to my teens.
Also, she has a new one out, The Likeness, that's been getting great reviews too.
Gadget_Girl - Aug 22, 2008 8:30:06 am PDT #7005 of 28388
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
The annotated Dracula sounds great! I think it will be added to my Christmas wish list.
Atropa - Aug 22, 2008 9:10:16 am PDT #7006 of 28388
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The New Annotated Dracula Bram Stoker, edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger
But but but ... I already have The Essential Dracula, edited by Leonard Wolf! However, upon re-reading the description, TNAD sounds even more elaborate than what I've already got.
... oh who am I kidding. Of course I want it. Apparently shopping for my birthday is going to be even easier than usual for people.
Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2008 9:20:22 am PDT #7007 of 28388
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Note to self--if ever you need to find a rare book on vampires, ask if Jilli has it, first.
Kat - Aug 22, 2008 9:25:12 am PDT #7008 of 28388
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Do you think it could have crossover YA appeal? I tend to read books quicker if there's a chance I can booktalk them to my teens.
YA, probably not. The narrator is in his mid thirties, though the victims of the crime are 12. It might work for a HS student who reads Tom Harris or the like. But it would have to be for a kid who has already made the leap into adult books.
Also, she has a new one out, The Likeness, that's been getting great reviews too.
The Likeness takes one of the characters and tells a new thriller from her POV.
I loved In the Woods. It has the right mix of broken sad characters and completely compelling crimesolving.
Atropa - Aug 22, 2008 9:32:30 am PDT #7009 of 28388
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Note to self--if ever you need to find a rare book on vampires, ask if Jilli has it, first.
I would laugh, but ... yeah, there's a good chance I would have some version of it. I have embraced my cliché.
Strix - Aug 23, 2008 6:42:53 am PDT #7010 of 28388
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's not a cliche, doll; it's a "speciality!"
Barb - Aug 23, 2008 2:40:21 pm PDT #7011 of 28388
“Not dead yet!”
Probably belongs more properly under the "movies" thread, but I'm sitting here, watching Four Weddings and a Funeral and just glorying in the utter glory that is Richard Curtis' writing. He writes the best love stories.
And the second wedding, Bernard and Lydia, Rowan Atkinson as the priest is just one of the most brilliant pieces of comedic writing ever.
le nubian - Aug 23, 2008 4:49:13 pm PDT #7012 of 28388
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Wait until the final scenes - "Is it raining" just about brought down the whole movie theater when I saw it years ago.