I have a question: thoughts on Patricia Reilly Griff? Just bought a couple mom had on her wishlist (Picture of Hollis Woods and Lily's Crossing.) Want to know if I should read them NOW before I give them to her. I'll probably get to read them eventually, but.... the box of xmas books for mom & dad? Is big. And has at least 4 I want to read in the next (checks calendar) 11 days. Shit.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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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."
sarameg - Dec 13, 2003 5:08:33 pm PST #240 of 10002
Kat - Dec 13, 2003 5:18:52 pm PST #241 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I adore Picture of Hollis Woods. I would definitely read it. It might take you all of 45 minutes to an hour. It's incredibly quick.
sarameg - Dec 13, 2003 5:28:53 pm PST #242 of 10002
Great (heh.) I'm going to be carrying a few plane/present books, I think. Got a 2 hour layover in Dallas...
In my family, it is perfectly legit to read the books before gifting them. There's also a tradition, when Xmas is in LC, in which you read everyone else's gifts first, before you leave. Then you read yours, but don't have to send them back for the other's to read, because they read them before they wrapped them! We're slightly insane.
flea - Dec 15, 2003 4:19:12 am PST #243 of 10002
information libertarian
This is completely logical. As is giving one's husband books he will enjoy but so will you. It's NOT a Homer Simpson gift if he likes it too. Nuh Uh.
sj - Dec 15, 2003 6:04:11 pm PST #244 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone read A Girl's Guide to Vampires? I was just at the bookstore and it caught my attention. I have only read the first chapter so far.
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2003 6:39:23 pm PST #245 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I read it. Not as funny as it ought to be, IMHO. It doesn't help that she's basing it on a really freaky vampire canon. (Not just not the Jossverse, but not the Stokerverse either. A weird romance-novel canon with Carpathians.)
sj - Dec 15, 2003 6:44:29 pm PST #246 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am finding it funny, but I don't think it is in the same places that the author intended to be funny.
Jessica - Dec 16, 2003 8:24:18 am PST #247 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I just finished The Dogs of Babel, which I started out very lukewarm about, and ended up not loving, but being very moved by, which surprised me, as I'm not generally a mystery fan or a books-about-people-and-their-pets fan.
Rhiannon - Dec 17, 2003 10:51:47 am PST #248 of 10002
"Church, cult, cult, church. So we get bored somewhere else every Sunday. Is this really going to change our day to day life?" Bart - the Joy of Sect
Skimming by - on the TB books - I said rabbit, rabbit on the first of the month for *years* and never remembered why or where I got it from!
3 copies of Weaver ordered and winging their way from Amazon....
deborah grabien - Dec 17, 2003 11:51:27 am PST #249 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(offers Rhiannon hot and cold running groupies and things)