What Hayden said.
I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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 10:51:56 am PDT #2845 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Steph L. - May 26, 2004 11:52:35 am PDT #2850 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
msbelle is right. Though I still like Faking It better, only because I'm *really* fond of the whole nutty Goodnight family.
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 12:07:11 pm PDT #2851 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will definitely buy it then.
Amy - May 26, 2004 12:12:32 pm PDT #2852 of 10002
Because books.
I'm not done with Faking It yet, and it's actually taking me longer to get into than almost any of her others, despite the fact that Tilda's voice is wonderfully wry. And the inhaler-puffing in the beginning is a great comic device (not so much for real asthmatics, I know). I loved Tell Me Lies from the opening sentence, and Welcome was also wonderful -- Phin was a great love interest. Agreeage on the plot element in question in Crazy for You -- it was a little much.
Question for all the lovely brains here: Young adult/childhood books were discussed way, way, way upthread, and last night I got into the topic with a friend as we compared what books we had book read growing up. One book I've never been able to find again was almost a time travel -- the girl "wakes up" in another century, and she's either a princess or simply in a castle, but rather than "true" time travel, she has epilepsy. I could swear the name of the book was I Hear(d) the Bluebirds Singing but I can't find mention of it anywhere. Any guesses? It either a late '60s or very early '70s book.
Picked up Annie Dillard's The Living at a library book sale last night, too, for all of a dime. Anyone read it? I had a friend awhile back who kept telling me to try her, especially Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but I hadn't up till now.
Jesse - May 26, 2004 12:12:41 pm PDT #2853 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't tell how much I liked Welcome to Temptation or Faking It, because of threads like this one. It's like, of course I loved them! I loved Bet Me, too -- possibly I was a little surprised because I thought folks here liked it less. Those are the only Crusie I've read.
ArcaneJill - May 26, 2004 12:14:05 pm PDT #2854 of 10002
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
most new Crusies are in General Fiction rather than Romance
Aha! Thanks for the heads-up -- I will have to check over there. Interesting, since I bought Crazy for You in Waldenbooks, in Romance, and they have several others of hers there. Although I don't know which ones.
I think I'm going to have to check out Welcome to Temptation (which I wanted to read anyway, after reading the first chapter in the end of Crazy for You ) and Faking It -- those seem to be well-liked.
Reading everyone's discussion makes me yearn for more time to read, especially the thought-provoking kind of books... I miss those. Although just read DaVinci Code , which (as my first suspense novel - is that the right genre?) was an interesting exercise (controversies aside).