Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?

Anya ,'Storyteller'


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 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.


Ginger - Aug 31, 2008 11:47:51 am PDT #7207 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Have we mentioned A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? Kara is probably a little young for that, though.


Deena - Aug 31, 2008 1:17:30 pm PDT #7208 of 28404
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

The Secret Garden, is one of my favorites, but she found the premise boring when I tried it about 6 months ago. I may give it another try in another 6 months. I do not know Thunderhead.

I loved Misty of Chincoteague and those stories, did not love Black Beauty as much. She loves horses though, so I'll

aidan (short break so Aidan could write his name)

try them all. I think A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a little old, but some of the others are too. I'll add it to the list for later.


Laga - Aug 31, 2008 1:23:43 pm PDT #7209 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I knew Thunderhead was the sequel to My Friend Flicka but neither Mom nor I realized they were part of a trilogy. I don't think I ever read the third book.