Darling Hecubus, may I tag?
I know you are only asking out of politeness since I am incapable of refusing you.
Most honored. Please do.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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."
DavidS - Jun 01, 2005 9:27:02 am PDT #7807 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Atropa - Jun 01, 2005 9:31:50 am PDT #7808 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I know you are only asking out of politeness since I am incapable of refusing you.
smooch
Thank you!
erikaj - Jun 01, 2005 9:42:17 am PDT #7809 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Hec is so funny, although I have been acting under the assumption that Porn+Quotations=Erotica. Is my face red!
Vonnie K - Jun 01, 2005 9:42:20 am PDT #7810 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Quick drive-by question;
Someone over at LJ was talking about George Sand, which triggered a memory of a book of hers I read as an impressionable teen--it was a novella set in Provence in 19th c., about a girl who is a bit of a wild-child/gypsy-esque, with a grandmother accused of witchery and a feeble/invalid brother. She was a great character--with a nasty streak and a filthy mouth and a scrappy spirit. She and a boy from the "right" side of the track take a sort of shine to each other, and there is a rather lovely, tentative romance. Sand cleaned her up later, made her into too much of a goody-too-shoes healer-type, which I recall sat uneasily with me.
The girl had a nickname--I think, "cricket"? I'm probably remembering it wrong, since I read it translated into Korean 20 years ago. Anyone know which book I'm talking about?
-t - Jun 01, 2005 9:53:23 am PDT #7811 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Is it Fanchon, the cricket? I haven't read it.
Vonnie K - Jun 01, 2005 10:02:55 am PDT #7812 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Possibly. That amazon site has no plot description so I'm not sure.
Googling Fanchon the Cricket tells me that it's another title for a book called La Petite Fadette. Hmmm.
ETA: Googling La Petite Fadette gives me a story description in French, and my French is just passable enough to understand that this is the book I'm looking for, so thanks!
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2005 8:46:27 pm PDT #7813 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I finished the latest Chalion-universe book, The Hallowed Hunt (I sprung for the hardback, since I liked the first two so much), and liked it again. Different pacing from the first two, and the theo/mythology is both new and thicker, so the end got a bit tangled. Still, fun.
Want more.
Volans - Jun 02, 2005 9:37:17 pm PDT #7814 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Plate of shrimp - the friend who introduced me to the Vorkosigan books just sent me Curse of Chalion with orders to read it.
I wonder if she lurks here? Or maybe it's just the universe's way of saying I need some reading time.
brenda m - Jun 03, 2005 4:00:01 am PDT #7815 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I just read that recently and really liked it, but I havent' been able to get my hands on the second. Will try again, now that you've reminded me.
Ginger - Jun 03, 2005 4:20:33 am PDT #7816 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My copy of The Hallowed Hunt got here yesterday. I really want to skip that whole working thing and read it instead. I just reread the other two and still found them to be wonderful. I'm not a big fantasy fan, but I'd probably tackle "Football Plays Explained" or "Collecting Barb Wire" if she wrote them.