Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
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."
Her dialogue, though bursting with arcane references and local colloquialisms, allows the characters to shine through: The banter Laine and his Penny toss about is particularly priceless. And she builds the kind of sophisticated suspense that surrounds and embraces us to make our minds spin and the hair on the back of our neck rise in this enchanted tale.
Oh, that's just lovely. Not the least because it's true. Congratulations, Deb!
I got a whole bunch of books for Christmas, as usual: the new Tom Robbins, Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman (a bit of a letdown--it's so short!), Songbook by Nick Hornby, a couple of Joseph Campbell, and best of all Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. Whee!
Did anyone get any books for christmas?
I got The Boondocks anthology "A Right to be Hostile" and a book about women writers of the 20th century.
I got a bunch of books for Hanukkah:
Oryx and Crake by Margart Atwood, Lost by Gregory Maguire, Enemies, a Love Story, by Singer, Lies my Teacher Told Me (forgot the author), and Easter Island, by Jennifer Vanderbes, which I've already finished and highly recommend.
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman (a bit of a letdown--it's so short!),
I bought this for myself and read it at the airport. I also felt letdown and would have liked the story to be about 50 pages longer. The writing seemed to lack the richness of the trilogy.
There's just nothing much to it, and the explanation offered at the end for the witch's behavior was pretty obvious . No interesting new revelations about the world or the characters. I was definitely disappointed.
I got Simon Winchester's new one, and a gorgeous very valuable history of Florence, among others.
Great review, Deb! Woo hoo!
Oh, speaking of reviews, I also treated myself to Kristin Olhson's "Stalking the Divine" when it first came out, and am planning on giving to my sister for her birthday. I just reviewed it at Amazon, but it likely won't show up for a day or two.
Congrats on the lovely review, Deb.
On a smaller scale, I gave Weaver to my mom for Christmas, as she enjoys mysteries. She said she liked it very much. (She finished it already when I called last night).
I also gave the folks Firefly, which puzzled them somewhat. Hee.
It's just that my dad is Mal, in a shorter stockier way (with looser pants) which I'm trying to figure out how to say to them.