This was recs for category romances:
And here's their whole category of recommendation posts:
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
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."
Deena - Aug 28, 2008 5:40:42 pm PDT #7153 of 28404
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 5:51:12 pm PDT #7154 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And yes, the Oz books! God, I loved the artwork. And Glinda is So Much Cooler in the books than in the movie - I hated movie!Glinda (although Wicked has redeemed her for me). Still, book!Glinda is cool and dignified and beautiful and elegant and powerful and has loads of gorgeous girly minions. She's sort of awesome.
Plus she had a sex change! So she was a transgender fairy princess.
I also loved The Borrowers books at that age.
sj - Aug 28, 2008 5:55:13 pm PDT #7155 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I love Faking It. It was the first Crusie I read.
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 6:05:09 pm PDT #7156 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I also loved The Borrowers books at that age.
To this day, I think of ferrets as the enemy.
Kathy A - Aug 28, 2008 6:35:01 pm PDT #7157 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For good SF/fantasy romance, I'd go with Knight of a Trillion Stars by Dara Joy, Beneath a Sapphire Sea by Jessica Bryan (mermaids), or Shield's Lady by Amanda Glass (actually Jayne Ann Krentz), and then, of course, there are all the great time travel books that only skirt the SF/Fantasy arena.
Aims - Aug 28, 2008 7:06:30 pm PDT #7158 of 28404
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Crusie's Welcome to Temptation
Love
Bet Me
Love
Faking It
Love
Fast Women
Love
Crazy For You, Tell Me Lies, What the Lady Wants
Love, Love, Love
Jennifer Crusie = Love.
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 8:01:14 pm PDT #7159 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm with you with everything except Crazy for You, in which there was too much creepy crazy.
megan walker - Aug 28, 2008 8:14:26 pm PDT #7160 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
"the aunt who gives books," not "the cool aunt."
I am both. And the "favorite aunt."
Of course, it helps that I am the only aunt.
In fact, my nephew left for boarding school today and I'm trying to figure out what I can send him at school to maintain my "cool aunt" status.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 8:17:02 pm PDT #7161 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I'm trying to figure out what I can send him at school to maintain my "cool aunt" status.
I hear the cool kids do drugs.
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2008 11:26:58 pm PDT #7162 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
On a completely unrelated note, I just finished a few comic memoirs: Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home.