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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."

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Micole - Feb 09, 2004 5:33:00 pm PST #745 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

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.

meara - Feb 09, 2004 6:23:05 pm PST #746 of 10002

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...

deborah grabien - Feb 09, 2004 7:57:47 pm PST #747 of 10002

It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

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.

Nilly - Feb 09, 2004 10:56:18 pm PST #748 of 10002

Swouncing

Micole, belated birthday wishes (it's not in the Buffista Calendar). May it be a wonderful year with lots of great books in it.

Micole - Feb 10, 2004 2:49:11 am PST #749 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

Thanks, Nilly! (And if you're still doing the calendar, feel free to add me.)

Katerina Bee - Feb 10, 2004 7:49:13 am PST #750 of 10002

Herding cats for fun

???

Has vapors, presses violet sachet to face. Rolls eyes heavenward, thinks of England.

Jesse - Feb 10, 2004 8:22:06 am PST #751 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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

DavidS - Feb 10, 2004 8:35:37 am PST #752 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy belated birthday, Micole!

Steph L. - Feb 10, 2004 3:41:47 pm PST #753 of 10002

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Finished American Gods. Good stuff. I liked it a lot.

Now....someone please jog my memory -- wasn't there some controversy or brouhaha after the novel came out because it led to some kind of crime? And if so, what? Because I can't imagine a person reading the books and deciding to just become Vishnu.

Anne W. - Feb 10, 2004 4:27:54 pm PST #754 of 10002

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Now....someone please jog my memory -- wasn't there some controversy or brouhaha after the novel came out because it led to some kind of crime?

American Gods? That would make zero sense.

American Psycho, on the other hand...

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