I think that I still need Blackhearts in Battersea, Midnight is a Place, The Stolen Lake . . . and the new one of course.
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
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."
sumi - Jan 08, 2004 7:02:57 am PST #423 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
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!
Steph L. - Jan 08, 2004 7:34:27 am PST #427 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Like the senseless crackhead I am, I'm reading Anne Rice's Blood Canticle, because even though the writing is utterly execrable, I need to know what happens to the characters.
And when I say execrable, I mean it. The entire first chapter is Rice herself, using the thinly veiled excuse of Lestat speaking in first person, basically RANTING at her readership for not liking previous books. And I am not even remotely kidding. She needs to SO get over herself.
Nilly - Jan 08, 2004 7:37:08 am PST #428 of 10002
Swouncing
Yes, Micole, you are right - they weren't translated at all, and I've never seen any of her books in English anywhere here.
Thanks for posting that list. I hope I'll get to use it soon, somewhere.
beth b - Jan 08, 2004 8:10:51 am PST #429 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DH read Blood Canticle. I think he was ashamed. At least he only reads her books from the library now.
Steph L. - Jan 08, 2004 8:14:10 am PST #430 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Oh, I'm ashamed, believe me. And you bet I got it from the library.
Deena - Jan 08, 2004 8:26:12 am PST #431 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
ita, that sounds interesting. I'll have to request it from the library.
I've read most of the books by Joan Aiken. That's saddening.
erikaj - Jan 08, 2004 8:27:55 am PST #432 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Anne, babe, get over yourself. You're like a literary dancing bear anyway...we put the money in, wind you up, and off you go...pages and pages of the same thing. Put down the crack pipe and the absinthe glass, ok, babe?