No, but I still love it. "Never ask me about my business, Kay. This one time you can ask me about my affairs."(Weird...second time I quoted that this week...freaky even for me.)
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - May 26, 2004 7:54:53 am PDT #2840 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
msbelle - May 26, 2004 9:45:54 am PDT #2841 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I read another Kate Shugak mystery this past week and Crusie's Crazy For You.
I feel I am doomed to not love any more of the Crusie books. I think my favourites (Welcome to Temptation, Faking It, and Fast Women) were my early reads.
I have now picked up Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, but am not really in it yet.
ArcaneJill - May 26, 2004 10:09:26 am PDT #2842 of 10002
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
msbelle, I saw (far) upthread that you picked up some Carolyn Wells' Patty books - I vaguely remember those from childhood! I think I read one or two - possibly Patty's Motor Car - I distinctly remember a circus, and a house down the shore with a front yard of pebbles. How's that for odd memories?
Although I was very into books from the 1900-1910s, (Maida books were my utter favorites) I don't remember Patty particularly well. From looking up the text online, I suspect that she was a little too old for me (a teenager!) at the time (I was probably 9 or 10). That motor car book made an impression, though - all the characters seemed so busy all the time! (Again, probably my childhood interpretation of turn-of-the-century teenagers :) )
ArcaneJill - May 26, 2004 10:13:14 am PDT #2843 of 10002
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
cereal...
By the way, speaking of Cruisie, read her Crazy for You and was surprised by how dark the whole ex-boyfriend stalker plot got. Not what I expected from the description on the back cover! But pretty good stuff .
I've been looking to pick up another Cruisie, but have been surprised that my local Borders (easily accessible at lunchtime!) has NO Cruisie books. How odd! I did read the Nora Roberts "Key" trilogy (am just finishing the last one now) and feel fairly satisfied with it, although hopefully the ending won't disappoint. :)
Hayden - May 26, 2004 10:20:28 am PDT #2844 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've never seen the movie version of The Godfather. Is it as porny?
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The book of The Godfather is schlocky pulp writing; the movie is a great examples of how acting and direction can intersect to create a multi-layered work worth watching over and over again.
erikaj - May 26, 2004 10:51:56 am PDT #2845 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
What Hayden said.
Steph L. - May 26, 2004 10:54:32 am PDT #2846 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I feel I am doomed to not love any more of the Crusie books.
I really didn't like Crazy for You, because of the aforementioned dark craziness with the BF, but also because I didn't really believe how the couple that was meant to be together (whatever their names were) hooked up. It seemed forced.
The most recent Crusie I read is Tell Me Lies, which I liked decently (and holy cow on the hot hot sexy sex). But it's no Faking It.
ION, I just saw on Amazon.com that their #1 book is Eats, Shoots & Leaves. How cool is THAT? A *grammar* book!!! Grammar RO0LZ!!!1!
Betsy HP - May 26, 2004 11:02:22 am PDT #2847 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
ArcaneJill, most new Crusies are in General Fiction rather than Romance (I note that you said you were looking for Roberts). It's a marketing switch rather than a content switch IMHO.
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 11:50:46 am PDT #2848 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have yet to read Crazy For You and Welcome To Temptation -- looks like I have a mixed bag ahead of me.
So far, Faking It was the sexiest, and the funniest.
msbelle - May 26, 2004 11:51:38 am PDT #2849 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh ita, Welcome is so good.