Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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."
If anyone is interested, the Agatha award for best novel went to "Birds of a Feather" by Jaqueline Winspear and the Agatha for best first novel went to "Dating Dead Men" by Harley Jane Kozak.
(The Agatha is the award given out at Malice Domestic every year. It is fan-decided.)
Harley Jane Kozak
Mrs. Jack O'Neill? Cool.
I used to love her stuff, but the last one of hers I read (The Powerbook) seemed way too boring and pretentious to me. Anyone know if this latest is any better?
Funny you mention that since I was browsing it at the bookstore yesterday and the jacket copy specifically mentions it was a "return to her earlier lyrical style."
I'm guessing she pissed away her readership and after noting this effect in her bank account decided to get back to her more saleable talents. I read a few pages and it did seem to be in the style of The Passion.
Yeah, I read the jacket copy too. It was enough to make me hope, but not enough to make me drop $20 based solely on its recommendation. I also wonder if I just might not like her style as much as I used to. I should reread The Passion (definitely my favorite of hers) and see how it holds up before buying this one.
So instead, I bought The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Affinity by Sarah Waters. Very much looking forward to both of these.
I like Sarah Waters, although I felt her last book, Fingersmith, wasn't as interesting and engaging as her first two. Let me know what you think.
So instead, I bought The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Finally got around to that, eh? ;-}
Mrs. Jack O'Neill? Cool.
Not sure what you mean by that, but yes, this is the actress who is now a writer. I only wish I liked the book more.(The main character got on my nerves, and there seemed to be too much "wackiness" for my tastes.)
She played Jack O'Neill's (Richard Dean Anderson) ex-wife on Stargate SG-1.
Finally got around to that, eh? ;-}
Ha! Yes, and probably for more than I would have paid for it at the Strand, alas.
So instead, I bought The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Affinity by Sarah Waters.
I loved "The Namesake." Lahri is an amazing writer. I'm not sure how to put this, but sometimes I find family sagas covering decades to be really boring and long-winded, and I lose track of who is who and why I should care. None of those things happened in this book.
I did not like "Affinity" as much as either "Tipping the Velvet" or "Fingersmith."