I've pimped it here before but I'm a huge fan of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived At the Castle.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
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."
DavidS - Oct 02, 2008 7:35:20 am PDT #7638 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fred Pete - Oct 02, 2008 7:43:40 am PDT #7639 of 28404
Ann, that's a ferret.
Really, just about any Shirley Jackson. I lean toward The Haunting of Hill House, myself.
Hayden - Oct 02, 2008 7:44:32 am PDT #7640 of 28404
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
Beverly - Oct 02, 2008 8:50:36 am PDT #7641 of 28404
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
Pix - Oct 02, 2008 10:23:45 am PDT #7642 of 28404
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 10:29:06 am PDT #7643 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Barb - Oct 02, 2008 10:41:06 am PDT #7644 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
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.
Steph L. - Oct 02, 2008 11:08:05 am PDT #7645 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
sj - Oct 02, 2008 11:09:54 am PDT #7646 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I'll second this recommendation. I love this series.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 11:14:24 am PDT #7647 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus?
Yes. She's going to be part of a group signing tour at a bookstore near me at the end of this month, so I'll finally get to meet her and geeble about how much I love her books.
(The problem is going to be that one of the other authors on the tour is someone who started out as a very good horror/splatterpunk author, and is now writing vampire YA books that seem to be very ... Gossip Girl. Private schools, lots of brand name fashion-y references, and not a lot of what I would expect from this writer. Which means I'm going to have to bite my tongue when I see her, and am also trying to decide if it would be Bad Form for me to take my copies of her earlier work to be signed.)