I have it on good authority (ok, Neil Gaiman) that the British royalty, far from being demon hunters, were in fact Lovecraftian gods.
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'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."
Volans - Jul 13, 2009 5:08:55 am PDT #9589 of 28404
move out and draw fire
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 5:10:22 am PDT #9590 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter sends me to a very happy Amazing Screw-On Head place.
Fay - Jul 13, 2009 6:32:48 am PDT #9591 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
And of course Queen Victoria was a werewolf, not a demon hunter!
Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2009 6:35:52 am PDT #9592 of 28404
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter sends me to a very happy Amazing Screw-On Head place.
I continue to show that to people, and they are always "Why didn't this get made into a series?"
Sigh.
Kat - Jul 13, 2009 5:25:48 pm PDT #9593 of 28404
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy (it was you, right?) and Jesse, I just finished The Thirteenth Tale. I would love to hear what you think as I had a hard transition from Julia Glass who has spare prose to the book and I think it may have colored how I felt about the story.
Amy - Jul 13, 2009 5:59:39 pm PDT #9594 of 28404
Because books.
Too ... purple for you, Kat? I didn't really think so, but it did take me a few pages to get into the sort of more formal, old-fashioned style.
What irked about the story?
Ginger - Jul 13, 2009 6:10:09 pm PDT #9595 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just saw that Charlie Brown of Locus died [link] I feel old.
Kat - Jul 13, 2009 6:44:07 pm PDT #9596 of 28404
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It felt overly ornate, Amy. Purple is a great description. It didn't irk me, but it did leave me as sort of meh.
Also, the big surprise of a third child didn't surprise so much. I'm not sure what tipped me off. The story was definitely page turning even if I kinda could see what was coming, though. And how much did I love the doctor? The one who prescribes Arthur Conan Doyle as an antidote to Jane Eyre? Total Love.
Now I'm reading Housekeeping which has sat on my shelf for two years and it's another adjustment all together.
Amy - Jul 13, 2009 6:51:12 pm PDT #9597 of 28404
Because books.
Oh, wow, that *would* be a switch, Kat. I only started that a while back, but the style is a total 180.
The twist you mentioned totally surprised me. I mean, I had been wondering about some things, how they were achieved, but that never occurred to me.
And I LOVED the doctor. I liked that hint of what Margaret was heading toward at the end. I think my only real quibble was how melodramatically she played Margaret's obsession with her own lost twin, because that seemed ... well melodramatic and too transparently designed as a mirror.
It was a fun read for me, though.
Kat - Jul 13, 2009 8:09:20 pm PDT #9598 of 28404
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, the whole thing with Margaret was just @@. I'm not really sure I buy into the whole wondertwin super power or maybe I don't want to because my own twins have shown none of that kinship. Is it because they are boy & girl and not girl girl? Or is the whole concept hokey? I think a real twist would have been to have Margaret obsessed with twins, only to find out that she was wrong or that what she thought was true was not. That there was no special twinness missing from her life, no twin after all. That her void has to do with her own longing for specialness.
I think both Adeline and Emmeline were so enmeshed not because they were twins, but because of the criminal neglect of them. They relied on each other because they only had each other. And I guess I think the implication that their not-rightness had to do with the incestuous relationship of the parents also sort of meh or at the very least an easy out. Again, I guess I'm more of a nurture person than a nature person.
Maybe I don't read "twin" stories well because of my own?