SHIT.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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."
deborah grabien - Jan 07, 2004 7:39:30 pm PST #417 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Consuela - Jan 07, 2004 8:21:06 pm PST #418 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sigh. Yeah.
Sigh.
I don't own any Joan Aiken. May have to rectify that this weekend...
Nilly - Jan 07, 2004 10:53:16 pm PST #419 of 10002
Swouncing
Sigh.
She had a couple of books translated into Hebrew (with Dido - how much I liked her), I had no idea she was so prolific.
Ouise - Jan 08, 2004 6:24:15 am PST #420 of 10002
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Oh no! I couldn't tell you how many books of hers I've read -- or how many times I've read each of those.
Katerina Bee - Jan 08, 2004 6:39:27 am PST #421 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Crap! Another one bites the dust. It will make the sequel to "Wolves of Willoughby Chase" bittersweet (goes to Amazon, puts book on Wish List)
edited for title: Midwinter Nightingale.
Nilly - Jan 08, 2004 6:48:49 am PST #422 of 10002
Swouncing
or how many times I've read each of those.
Well, if any of them is as good as the couple I have read ("Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "Wolves of Willoghby Chase"), then they definitely deserve it. Ever since the first read (a library book, now lost from the library itself, never found in any second-hand bookstore) I couldn't get my hands on a copy of "Wolves", but I've read "Nightbirds on Nantucket" (from the same library, lost only years later, and, again, never seen in any store afterwards) over and over again (and before any of the others, too).
[Edit: could this sentence get any more confused or have more parentheses?]
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 7:02:57 am PST #423 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I think that I still need Blackhearts in Battersea, Midnight is a Place, The Stolen Lake . . . and the new one of course.
Micole - Jan 08, 2004 7:26:50 am PST #424 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
("Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "Wolves of Willoghby Chase"),
This makes me feel sad, because those two books are in a series, but they're a book apart. I guess the intervening books wasn't translated into Hebrew? I am distressed on behalf of Nilly and other Israeli children.
The series goes:
1 - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 2 - Black Hearts in Battersea 3 - Nightbirds on Nantucket 4 - The Stolen Lake * 5 - The Cuckoo Tree 6 - Dido and Pa 7 - Is (or Is Underground) 8 - Limbo Lodge (or Cold Shoulder Road) 9 - Dangerous Games
and the forthcoming Midwinter Nightingale.
* Goes there chronologically but actually written after The Cuckoo Tree. The Whispering Mountain is set in the same world.
[Edited because one equals neither three nor four.]
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2004 7:29:08 am PST #425 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have never read any Aiken, but I sense a book spree coming on.
Over Christmas I read dumb books (Da Vinci Code, a Grisham, an Evelyn Anthony (what a racist phobe she is)). Now I'm reading Mojo: Conjure Stories an anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson, and so far it's batting a pretty high percentage. Good personal magic African and diasporic stuff. Mostly voodoo, but still good.
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 7:31:52 am PST #426 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Where does The Whispering Mountain fit in this? It's definitely related!