That was a great book.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Jesse - Apr 04, 2009 1:53:12 pm PDT #8659 of 28431
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Apr 04, 2009 3:29:52 pm PDT #8660 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
askye - Apr 04, 2009 3:58:10 pm PDT #8661 of 28431
Thrive to spite them
I've just finished two books, Kushiel's Dart and Kushiel's Chosen the first two in a series by Jacqueline Carey. Has anyone read these? They are fantasy-alternate history, although not really alternate history. It takes place in a fantasy version of France and the main character is Phadre, who is a courtesan and becomes a spy.
Kat - Apr 04, 2009 5:10:35 pm PDT #8662 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Can y'all give me titles of young adult novels where the lead character is either just out of high school or in college proper?
Barb,
Megan McCafferty books. (Sloppy Firsts is the first in the trilogy....but in the second book they are in college). Paper Towns by John Green is graduation summer before college. I Love You Beth Cooper is also around graduation.
beth b - Apr 04, 2009 5:18:49 pm PDT #8663 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Barb -- Shift by Jennifer Bradbury. 2 time periods the summer between high school and college and freshman yr. So Good. Very much a YA book. And even more unusually -- the main characters are boys.
Steph L. - Apr 04, 2009 5:20:15 pm PDT #8664 of 28431
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What about Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist? Were they still in high school? I can't remember.
Steph L. - Apr 04, 2009 5:24:46 pm PDT #8665 of 28431
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, has anyone read The Forest of Hands and Teeth yet?
I thought it would be like The Village (the M. Night Shyamalan movie), and it has similarities, but fortunately it isn't mind-numbingly stupid in the way the film was.
Reasonably good, although there were things that I wanted to be more fully explained that never were. Still, I liked it.
Kat - Apr 04, 2009 6:04:31 pm PDT #8666 of 28431
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Were they still in high school? I can't remember.
Yep.
I'm trying to remember if Abundance of Katherines, by John Green is early college or high school.
ETA summer before college. LOVE that book.
Polter-Cow - Apr 04, 2009 9:39:41 pm PDT #8667 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, a friend just recommended that book to me! It sounds pretty cool.
Born Confused takes place the summer before senior year.
Fay - Apr 04, 2009 11:40:31 pm PDT #8668 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
askye - yep, love 'em. I've read the Phaedre trilogy, and then it moves on to focus on another character (she says, shiftily) for the next trilogy, with Phaedre in a main supporting role.
Obviously, I guess I'm partial to the whole bdsm aspect of the stories, but also, I can't think of any other epic fantasy type series that has a female hero being heroic in such an un-masculine way. If that makes sense? I really enjoy the whole courtesan-spy extravaganza, and the way that, whilst sex and sexuality is a huge part of the stories, it's the very antithesis of the Laurell K Hamilton approach to writing sex. I mean, hell, I'm a sucker for swashbucklers at the best of times, so this is total catnip for me. And it's lots of fun playing the where-will-they-go-next? game, with her alternative medieval world. And I like the way she's woven her religions together too. One of my favourite writers of epic fantasy, at least with the D'Angeline books. (I've seen some others by her that haven't really appealed, although they may be lovely.)