Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
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.
The annotated Dracula sounds great! I think it will be added to my Christmas wish list.
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.
Note to self--if ever you need to find a rare book on vampires, ask if Jilli has it, first.
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.
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.
It's not a cliche, doll; it's a "speciality!"
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.
Wait until the final scenes - "Is it raining" just about brought down the whole movie theater when I saw it years ago.
Oh, I know the film well--just haven't watched in in forever. And I'm just such a huge Richard Curtis fan. That talk between Charles and Tom after Gareth's funeral where they make the observation that for all they all talked about their freedom and not being tied down, that for all intents and purposes, two of them had been married just always breaks. my. heart. Every time.
So, so many good lines in that film, although as a complete film, in terms of the writing, I adore Love Actually even more.