Travis McCat? I'll some people here have read John D. McDonald's Travis McGee series.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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."
Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2008 5:50:10 am PDT #7406 of 28404
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kate P. - Sep 19, 2008 7:20:58 am PDT #7407 of 28404
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Zaphod?
Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2008 7:23:35 am PDT #7408 of 28404
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Zaphod?
If it was my cat, we'd have winner.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2008 6:53:54 pm PDT #7409 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've been reading Girls of Riyadh. The blurb on the cover says, "Imagine Sex and the City if the city in question were Riyadh," and that's basically it. It's pretty compelling so far. I'm about halfway through right now. It was translated from Arabic, and there are a bunch of places where there are footnotes on cultural things or on Arabic words that didn't really have an English equivalent.
Fay - Sep 19, 2008 8:15:03 pm PDT #7410 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
That sounds fascinating, Hil! I'll keep my eyes peeled for it!
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2008 8:38:41 pm PDT #7411 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It's definitely the rich girls of Riyadh -- they take vacations to Europe and sometimes the US pretty often, and they almost never seem terribly concerned about money.
Also, I've been noticing that, in contrast to most similar-type American and British books that I've read, there are very few descriptions of clothing (aside from wedding dresses and things like that), but the description of someone's makeup can go on for an entire page.
It's written as if it were being sent out, chapter by chapter, to an email list, by an anonymous Saudi girl, with little bits at the beginning of each chapter of the "author's" reactions to what everyone's been saying about it. That was wearing a little thin for a while, but it's starting to pick up again.
Barb - Sep 20, 2008 4:04:11 am PDT #7412 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
I'm trying to finish Susan Wiggs' Just Breathe. Not sure I'm going to get there-- it was one of those cases where the book is thisclose to really going somewhere interesting and unique and the author chose the cliché, every single time.
That and the lead character is a complete waffle.
Beverly - Sep 20, 2008 5:43:27 am PDT #7413 of 28404
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Barb, I'm quoting this post of yours in GWW because my response to it belongs more there than here.
P.M. Marc - Sep 20, 2008 6:32:51 am PDT #7414 of 28404
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm trying to finish Susan Wiggs' Just Breathe. Not sure I'm going to get there-- it was one of those cases where the book is thisclose to really going somewhere interesting and unique and the author chose the cliché, every single time.
That's a shame! Her historicals are some of the few romance books I have that survived the purge, because she *did* go somewhere interesting so often.
Barb - Sep 20, 2008 6:50:21 am PDT #7415 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
If you want, Plei, I'll send it to you when I'm done. Could be I'm completely cracked.