Oh, I read a history book on the 20's-40's the other day which detailed the Great Depression
Was it The Worst Hard Time ?
Email me your address and I can pop a couple of my books in the mail, if you want.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
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."
Amy - Mar 04, 2009 11:27:35 am PST #8516 of 28431
Because books.
Strix - Mar 04, 2009 11:30:30 am PST #8517 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Amy, it was Daily Life in the United States 1920-1940. It was mot focused per se on TGD, but naturally did talk a lot about it.
Kathy, yep, I have read those, and found them fun...which made some of Joy's later works surprisingly...er, awful.
Amy, you are a doll, but you don't have to do that. I am notoriously TERRIBLE about returning things to people: I might not send them back for YEARS.
Connie Neil - Mar 04, 2009 11:32:06 am PST #8518 of 28431
brillig
would do the feet-on-feet dance thing with my sister and I.
Oh, gosh, yeah . . . and I've been missing my father rather a lot recently, even with him gone 25 years.
Amy - Mar 04, 2009 11:33:45 am PST #8519 of 28431
Because books.
I might not send them back for YEARS.
Um, I meant copies of a couple books I had written. Which you could totally keep. ::sheepish::
Strix - Mar 04, 2009 11:37:25 am PST #8520 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, in that case, hells yeah! That would be awesome! Thank you.
Kathy A - Mar 04, 2009 11:42:32 am PST #8521 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy, yep, I have read those, and found them fun...which made some of Joy's later works surprisingly...er, awful.
ITA! I really think that the legal conflicts took her writing mojo out of her. Too bad, because those books are great.
For straight historical romance, have you ever read Loretta Chase? She hasn't written too many books, but those she has are really wonderful. I think Lord of Scoundrels is one of the best romances of the past 20 years, and the sequel, The Last Hellion is almost as great.
Strix - Mar 04, 2009 11:50:12 am PST #8522 of 28431
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I know the name, but I haven't read her. I see if she's at the lib.
I like Liu, Kresley Cole, and I laugh but still read Ward.
Ginger - Mar 04, 2009 11:58:03 am PST #8523 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have every vinyl album the more-or-less original Kingston Trio made, and I played them so often that I think I wore the grooves into my brain. I don't have enough of them in digital form, although I don't really need them, since I'm pretty much a Kingston Trio playback device. When I was a kid, my best friend's father saw them at a club on a business trip and brought back an album. We became obsessed. This is why I missed the British invasion but can give a stirring rendition of "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm."
Has anyone else read The Monsters of Templeton?
Kathy A - Mar 04, 2009 12:01:29 pm PST #8524 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
This is why I missed the British invasion but can give a stirring rendition of "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm."
"Carrier Pigeon" was my favorite from that album.
lisah - Mar 04, 2009 12:02:30 pm PST #8525 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
Has anyone else read The Monsters of Templeton?
Yes, HATED it.