Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
Gotta love the...presence of an ellipsis...in a post about...Barbara...and her breathless little...heroines.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Susan W. - Jul 19, 2004 9:21:57 pm PDT #5212 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Consuela - Jul 19, 2004 9:23:50 pm PDT #5213 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm 2/3 of the way through Set This House in Order, and now I understand why it won the Tiptree. Heh.
Sneaky.
msbelle - Jul 20, 2004 4:35:51 am PDT #5214 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. Finally at the end, stuff happens. The lack of action through the book didn't really bother me so much. The charcters are are well developed or well described at least. One thing I really liked about it was how the narrative seamlessly moves from one time and place to another time and place and it was never jarring to me. I wonder if that was just me. My bookclub discusses it on Wednesday, so I will find out.
lisah - Jul 20, 2004 5:47:19 am PDT #5215 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday. Finally! The book was assigned months ago. I'm going to have to review all the notes I took while reading it. (Mostly consisting of "Huh?!" and "EW")
Jesse - Jul 20, 2004 6:11:08 am PDT #5216 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
Ditto and ditto. I wondered why I couldn't remember anything about the book, and then I saw the bookmark I left, a couple of chapters in. Oops.
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 7:20:39 am PDT #5217 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday.
SUH-WEET! I want to start an all VC Andrews bookclub.
t runs to B'cry
t just kidding
erikaj - Jul 20, 2004 8:37:12 am PDT #5218 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
BWAH!!!
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2004 8:38:09 am PDT #5219 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Deconstructing Incest and Other Fucked-Up Shit: The V.C. Andrews Bookclub Thread."
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 8:42:03 am PDT #5220 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Our first book will be My Sweet Audrina.
The only stand alone book VC Andrews did. Also her first (AFAIK) and no incest in it. IMHO, it's her best, quality-wise. The Heaven series is my favorite, but this one's really good.
Katerina Bee - Jul 20, 2004 8:54:10 am PDT #5221 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Loved Flowers in the Attic, the other books, NSM. Somehow the creeping horror of gradually realizing that their mother would never come back for them really got to me. There was a perfectly horrible movie version starring Kristy Swanson. I remember the audience groaning in distress and thinking there must have been a bunch of folks who had read the book attending that particular press screening.