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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."

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DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 5:51:12 pm PDT #7154 of 28402
"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 28402
"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 28402
"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 28402
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 28402
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 28402
"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 28402
"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 28402
"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 28402
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.

Fay - Aug 29, 2008 3:01:27 am PDT #7163 of 28402
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I also need a recommendation of a well-written romance novel. My male friend who is really into sci fi ish stuff, but also Shakespeare, doesn't believe there is a romance novel that is ever "good", but said he would read one.

...he's either gay or in a relationship (or both), right?

If not, how does he feel about mail-order English Roses?

Plus she had a sex change! So she was a transgender fairy princess.

How did I not know this? Because this is FABulous.

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