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Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

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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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Java cat - Apr 09, 2004 6:12:31 pm PDT #2120 of 10002
Not javachik

I really like mysteries where they aren't stand-alones and there are progressive changes in the people's lives. Karen Kijewski and Dana Stabenow do that the best, IMO.

I tried and pretty much succeeded in reading the Rex Stout's in order, though it was long ago and far away and I mostly remember now my love for Archie and Nero's obession with shad roe. And orchids, of course.

I'd read my grandmother's Travis McGee's when we'd visit her in Fla. Exotic stuff. They kissed and had sex and stuff! Yup, I'm old.

Pix - Apr 09, 2004 6:14:57 pm PDT #2121 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

www.stopyourekillingme.com

Thanks!

I really like mysteries where they aren't stand-alones and there are progressive changes in the people's lives.

Me too. I adore Elizabeth George for that reason, because her cast of characters all change over the series (though, like any series, there are ups and downs in the quality of the plots, IMO).

Java cat - Apr 09, 2004 6:24:50 pm PDT #2122 of 10002
Not javachik

I've only read a few of hers and they are indistinct in my memory. Did she have one where a garden gnome was sending postcards from all over the world?

Pix - Apr 09, 2004 7:13:45 pm PDT #2123 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Java - she may, but I'm not familiar with it. Using that site, here is the list of her mystery series featuring Thomas Lynley (aristocrat turned detective) and Barbara Havers (working class sergeant). I love the fact that Havers isn't the typical mystery-series woman protagonist especially.

I think the series hits its stride around the third or fourth book, but I enjoyed all of them.

sumi - Apr 09, 2004 7:18:20 pm PDT #2124 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I think that the garden gnome thing is one of the Elizabeth MacPherson (if that's the way she spells it) mysteries, written by Susan McCrumb.

dcp - Apr 09, 2004 7:18:27 pm PDT #2125 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Sharyn McCrumb did the postcard-sending garden gnome thing, don't know whether Elizabeth George did it too.

ETA: ha, sumi beat me to it by seven seconds

sumi - Apr 09, 2004 7:20:34 pm PDT #2126 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Sharyn! How could I forget that name!

Ginger - Apr 09, 2004 7:21:24 pm PDT #2127 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

One of the Sharyn McCrumb Elizabeth MacPherson books has a postcard-sending gnome. Elizabeth George is a good deal darker.

Of course it's a xpost.

Snacky - Apr 09, 2004 7:32:06 pm PDT #2128 of 10002
Like I need a hole in my head

Sharyn McCrumb stole my name!

DavidS - Apr 09, 2004 7:33:54 pm PDT #2129 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sharyn McCrumb stole my name!

Snacky McCrumb? That bitch!

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