'War Stories'
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."
Thank you Buffistas for validating me! Even Micole, since you said you are mildly fond of it, which is better (for me) than saying it's the best thing since the invention of creme brulee, or something. Since you have such good taste in things I'd hate to really dislike something you loved.
And I'll try to send it off, just, um, you know me and shipping things, right? It may take a while.
It'll be a very late birthday gift. Speaking of which, Happy Belated Birthday!!
t begins casting flirtatious looks at Consuela in order to confuse Katerina
Carey's next project is the "Banewalker duology" and the one after that is the "Imriel trilogy" (set in the same world as the Kushiel books). I don't think she's planning to do standalone novels anytime soon, and I don't think it would actually benefit her artistically to do so -- she's clearly interested in a broad canvas. I just think she needs to get better at depth of world-building to match the expanse of her rather picaresque epic plotting.
And thank you, Suela! No rush.
So, I bought the new LKH Merry Gentry novel, because I really needed a wallow.
Is this a third one, Betsy? Huh. Didn't know it was out. Maybe I'll hit the B&N and spend some time reading, one of these evenings...
Rhiannon, thank you, ma'am; it's been enough of a cruncher these past couple of weeks to where I'm now drowning myself in an orgy of Simenon. Lots and lots of 1950s Paris. Yes indeed. And psychological why-done-it stories.
I know I'm not happy when my bedtime reading starts out with "Maigret and the Killers" and progresses to Nicholas Blake's "The Beast Must Die" and pauses for Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House." All superb books, none of them bedtime material, unless you sleep on a bed of nails and wear hair shirt pajamas.
Oy.
I am not in the least vanilla, but I am now and likely will be forever unable to participate in Kushiel discussions.
Micole, belated birthday wishes (it's not in the Buffista Calendar). May it be a wonderful year with lots of great books in it.
Thanks, Nilly! (And if you're still doing the calendar, feel free to add me.)
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Has vapors, presses violet sachet to face. Rolls eyes heavenward, thinks of England.
Hey, if any of y'all are Lawrence Block fans, he's about to head off on a huge book tour, including lots of talks at public libraries. The schedule is here
Happy belated birthday, Micole!