Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
The Yellow Wallpaper creeps me out. I get the chills just thinking about it.
IObookN, those who like Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book and/or would like to buy a copy, B&N has them in their $2 bin right now--we've got about five copies left as of last night.
The Yellow Wallpaper creeps me out. I get the chills just thinking about it.
See, they just read it on "Classic Tales" podcast, and, yet again, it didn't just didn't work for me. Shirley Jackson, on the other hand, especially "The Lottery", gives me the chills. I know I've read something really creepy in the last year and am blanking on what it was.
I've pimped it here before but I'm a huge fan of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived At the Castle.
Really, just about any Shirley Jackson. I lean toward The Haunting of Hill House, myself.
That one's fantasticly creepy. The Turn Of The Screw is a rather horrifyingly great book, too.
xpost - I meant We Have Always Lived At The Castle, but it applies in either case.
I lean toward The Haunting of Hill House, myself.
Whose hand had she been holding..?
Brrr. It took me two days to work up the courage to pick up the book again after that scene.
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series? I have a bunch of 14-year-old girls who really need another book to grasp onto that doesn't include a whiny, needy protagonist and sparkly!vampires.
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series?
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I thought Silk was nicely done and oogy (and I'm amazed you read it, Jill1!)
It was Caitlin's first novel and I really wanted to support her. She was amazed that I read it, too. I will state that I haven't RE-read it. I want to, but ... um, no. I don't think I can bring myself to do it.
Oh dear, I was just quoted in mediabistro with respect to the Nobel flap.
Well, at least they left out the part where I called the secretary of the Swedish Academy a douchenozzle.
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus? Because if so, she's doing an event/signing at my local library in a couple of weeks (the branch of the library that's literally 5 minutes from my office). Maybe I should read her books.