heh. i felt the same way, jesse!

I'm also bitter that the author is younger than me, but I guess that just means it's time to realize that I'm not too young to have accomplished anything significant.

I read a blurb in Cody's Books' newsletter and thought Buffistas would be interested in this: [link]

(dunno why it won't take you to the book, but it takes you to Cody's and you can search the title. Sorry)

The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. As a leading neurologist at a major research hospital, Flaherty writes from the front lines of brain research.

I brave the scorn to say I really enjoyed the hell out of Carey's books. But I also read superfast, so boring parts aren't frustrating to me. But I really wasn't bored by a lot and I love the long multi-volume books, because they take me longer than a couple of hours to read. I thought they were fun.

Betsy, I read the new LKH on the plane, and I was also pleasantly surprised that it had a plot. It was perfect plane reading; interesting enough to make the time go by, but not so engrossing that I resented talking to my friend on and off. But you're right, Superpowers abound, and didn't it crack you up that at the end of the book, Merry has SIXTEEN supernatural studs sleeping with her?! My GOD! I mean, go sex, choose sex, but OUCH!

Holy bladder infection, Batman!

Absolutely, Erin. And who the hell sleeps in the wet spot, which must be approximately the size of Taiwan?

It would also be nice if Hamilton explained just how Merry, who is sleeping with a different Elven-stud every night, is going to KNOW who the daddy was.

Betsy, I didn't think about that! BUt I'm sure she'll just "know."

It boggles the crotch, doesn't it, Erika?!

Hee. "Size of Taiwan."

Hee.

I brave the scorn to say I really enjoyed the hell out of Carey's books. But I also read superfast, so boring parts aren't frustrating to me. But I really wasn't bored by a lot and I love the long multi-volume books, because they take me longer than a couple of hours to read. I thought they were fun.

Oh, me too. It was late in the second book before I really had all my de Somervilles and Trevalions and L'Enverses straight, but I totally enjoyed the ride. But few things make me happier than discovering a new long multivolume series that hits one of my sweet spots as a reader.

But few things make me happier than discovering a new long multivolume series that hits one of my sweet spots as a reader.

Yes, indeedy. It's like finding a new author.

Are the Jennifer Crusie books that were previously out of print and/or just plain hard to find now back in print? Because I bought Strange Bedfellows at Target.