I know! I like Miles okay - but I'm sad that Cordelia became such a small character in the books.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
sumi - Aug 31, 2008 9:27:07 am PDT #7197 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 9:28:30 am PDT #7198 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Can you see the old-fashioned rounded edge fridge and the glass milk bottle when you think this?
When this happens (and it's almost every time I put milk {or cream, or sometimes Bailey's} in my coffee) I'm just looking in the cup and watching the liquid behave as liquid does when the words coalesce in my head. It was only this morning, after our YA conversation, that I'd really thought about where the words come from and what is happening in that scene. I didn't see the fridge or the milk bottle but the camera on the cup in my mind panned back a little and I saw a green formica tabletop with a metal edge.
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 9:40:20 am PDT #7199 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I mentioned the young adult conversation to Mom. She said she loved Nancy Drew and "all the dog and horse books" and I realized we've missed Black Beauty!
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2008 9:40:43 am PDT #7200 of 28404
brillig
I'm in the middle of Warrior's Apprentice, and I'm already missing Cordelia. Barryar wasn't in the library, darn it.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2008 9:43:57 am PDT #7201 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Barryar wasn't in the library, darn it.
Did you read Shards of Honor first, or the smooshed-together Cordelia's Honor, which is (IIRC) Shards of Honor and Barrayar in one volume?
Barrayar is SO good, because Cordelia kicks SO much ass.
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 9:46:35 am PDT #7202 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Mom also recommends The Secret Garden and Thunderhead.
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2008 9:55:20 am PDT #7203 of 28404
brillig
Shards of Honor, it was a separate volume. Months ago the folks here listed the books in chronological order, and that's how I'm trying to read them.
sumi - Aug 31, 2008 11:04:49 am PDT #7204 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
I loved Black Beauty!
When I was young, my cousin and I would draw and cut out paper horses. (Similar to Velvet Brown in National Velvet but she cut out photographs of horses - also - NATIONAL VELVET.) Anyway, I made paper horses of ALL the horse characters from Black Beauty even the really minor ones.
Ginger - Aug 31, 2008 11:08:45 am PDT #7205 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Barrayar is SO good, because Cordelia kicks SO much ass.
Shopping!
Consuela - Aug 31, 2008 11:45:47 am PDT #7206 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I loved Mary O'Hara's novels--My Friend Flicka, Thunderheart, and the third one, I memfault the name. They got increasingly mature and emotionally complex as they went. I also really liked her autobiography, which makes it clear she wrote the novels from experience.