Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Did we already know about The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making?
Fay, have you read Palimpsest? That's the novel that Fairyland comes from (although the author never intended to write Fairyland).
Anyway, I'm reading Fairyland, and it really is lovely.
I have not read Palimpsest, but I went to try to find it at my bookshop yesterday! Sadly it was not in stock. I printed out the info from the info-printy-outy-machine, and WAS going to go and order it, because it sounded so very much My Cup Of Tea from the website info. However, then my feet took me over to the comic book section, and I picked up Buffy Season 8 book 4, and LoEG: 1910, and The Umbrella Academy Book 1, and decided maybe I'd already spent enough for one day.
Was reflecting upon the events of Buffy 8 Book 3, and the death of Renne, and I'm torn, but I still kind of mostly want to smack Joss for that one, I think. Because, damn it, she's so very much shown as The Girlfriend, and then as The Dead Girlfriend, with her final thoughts being of Xander (rather than her mum, or whatever) and I did love the whole Dracula schtick very much indeed, for obvious reasons of slashiness, but I still pretty much hate that they basically just fridged her.
Ah well.
Man, I keep buying new books, and I have a MOUNTAIN - well, several mountains - of books yet unread, but I'm mostly just writing at the moment.
But Palimpsest is definitely on the list. (Hell, it's one of my very favourite words, for starters!)
I am reading the most amazing book: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet It's really really jawdroppingly awesome as is the website. Anyone read it?
(P.S. this is a perfect gift for a certain globehopping buffista)
Oh, this is freakin' awesome! The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is devoted to vampires and they have a series of little interviews and short essays by many of the contemporary authors.
Stephenie Meyer: "In 2007, as Twilight propelled her from a surprise YA bestseller to a multigenerational superstar, she admitted to EW that she had never read Bram Stoker's Dracula. Reading other people's vampire stories made her too "neurotic," she explained. As a Mormon, Meyer doesn't watch R-rated movies, so that eliminated a whole other swatch of the canon. (She has seen bits of Interview With the Vampire and The Lost Boys on late-night TV. Her respective reviews "Yuck!" and "Creepy!")
Way to use that English Lit vocab, babe.
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer has come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
REALLY? Then again, she's never had much of a kissing relationship with reality anyhow...
Charlaine Harris' essay is absolutely as charming as she is and Anne Rice is in surprisingly good form. Not too mad at all. At least, not when compared to Laurell and Stephenie.
Not too mad at all. At least, not when compared to Laurell and Stephenie.
Way to set the bar looooooow.
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer as come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
"Jeez, Bobby, why not just compare her to the monkeys in the zoo?" (Sorry...that KOTH was just on.) Stephenie Meyer always comes off like she is in 13 Going on Thirty or something. Except I like Jennifer Garner and think Meyer is a moron. But that would explain a. her grasp of teens and 2. Her complete and total inability to get quoted with anything intelligent...every time she opens her mouth, Shauna dies, just a little bit more.(Because I've decided...all publicists are Jersey girls named Shauna now.) And she never gets used to how Meyer flinches when she says "Jesus Christ!"
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
Let's put it this way. Everyone's laughing at her.
Including dead people. Which seems oddly appropriate. I could never pull this off...nobody claims to "pioneer" crime fiction cause the people that write it are so good with guns. IJS.
OK, the fact that Stephanie Meyers is Mormon explains A LOT.