I'm re-reading Mirabile by Janet Kagan. Gotta love an author who can come up with creatures like the kangaroo rex and the frankenswine.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
dcp - Jun 16, 2004 6:30:17 am PDT #3265 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 6:30:18 am PDT #3266 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Happy Bloomsday to you, Steph!
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2004 6:38:39 am PDT #3267 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Now that I'm an aspiring romance author, I feel like it behooves me to know more about the genre in general, and not just my little ghetto of favored historical and Regency authors. In particular, with the exception of a few Kathleen Eagle books, I've never read contemporary romances, at all. They just don't appeal to me for a variety of reasons, ranging from my overall preference for fiction set somewhere or somewhen other than my everyday world, to a preponderance of plot devices that annoy (secret babies*, big city girl finds REAL happiness by going back to hometown and marrying h.s. sweetheart who's now the sheriff, etc.), to heroes that just don't appeal--what's with all these cops and cowboys and Navy SEALs?
So, I'm asking for a reading list. Give me a highlights of contemporary romance, ideally ones that won't feel too much like homework. Help me be able to nod sagely when my fellow romance writers talk about the appeal of various authors.
*OK, so my work-in-progress kinda sorta has a secret baby plot device. Only it's set in 1811-12, and the heroine has legitimate reasons to believe she'll never see the father again. And when he reappears in her life, within 24 hours she tells him he has a son.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 6:40:56 am PDT #3268 of 10002
brillig
Bloomsday
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Katie M - Jun 16, 2004 6:43:15 am PDT #3269 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I've got pretty much nothing myself, but I know melymbrosia reviews romance sometimes--there's a set of them in her memories here.
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2004 6:47:04 am PDT #3270 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Same here.
Betsy HP - Jun 16, 2004 6:47:40 am PDT #3271 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Connie is me. I was feeling guilty just this morning hearing the NPR hoo-hah.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2004 6:49:05 am PDT #3272 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Susan, I asked for romance recs here: Jesse "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" May 27, 2004 9:52:17 am PDT
Maysa - Jun 16, 2004 6:51:57 am PDT #3273 of 10002
Some Bloomsday humor.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 6:55:34 am PDT #3274 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, here you go. All y'all non-Ulysses readers can do so, a page at a time, over the next year.