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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."

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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?

StuntHusband - Jul 15, 2009 10:49:38 am PDT #9599 of 28404

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

The cover of "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters".

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 15, 2009 11:14:59 am PDT #9600 of 28404

"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

See, I feel I should actually read 'Sense and Sensibility' before that. P&P&Z I'm working on now. It's definitely livening up Austen for me.

StuntHusband - Jul 15, 2009 11:21:28 am PDT #9601 of 28404

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

P&P&Z I'm working on now. It's definitely livening up Austen for me.

I think you got irony all over me...

Calli - Jul 15, 2009 11:23:24 am PDT #9602 of 28404

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Oh, dear. SH, I think that's gonna leave a stain.

StuntHusband - Jul 15, 2009 11:31:16 am PDT #9603 of 28404

Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

SH, I think that's gonna leave a stain.

Cracked my glasses, that's for sure.

Kat - Jul 16, 2009 11:31:13 am PDT #9604 of 28404

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Anyone read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?

Volans - Jul 16, 2009 11:49:48 am PDT #9605 of 28404

move out and draw fire

Yep. I liked it, although it renewed my desire to never live in Sweden.

DawnK - Jul 16, 2009 12:38:11 pm PDT #9606 of 28404

giraffe mode

Kat, I'm just reading it now, I like it. The drawback is I have trouble putting it away if I read at lunch which makes the boss peeved when I'm late getting back to the office.

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