Holy bladder infection, Batman!
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
erikaj - Feb 13, 2004 12:15:02 pm PST #783 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Betsy HP - Feb 13, 2004 12:18:25 pm PST #784 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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.
Strix - Feb 13, 2004 12:46:33 pm PST #785 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
Susan W. - Feb 13, 2004 1:02:26 pm PST #786 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
Betsy HP - Feb 13, 2004 1:10:00 pm PST #787 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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.
Steph L. - Feb 13, 2004 3:23:36 pm PST #788 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
Betsy HP - Feb 13, 2004 5:06:45 pm PST #789 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Most of them are. There are two (three)? whose rights are still owned by the publishers. The Cinderella Deal is the most-regretted.
Java cat - Feb 13, 2004 9:00:01 pm PST #790 of 10002
Not javachik
cross polinating:
More good news for me, in baby steps. Got a call from Book Passage (a really superb indy bookstore in toney Marin County); did I want to do a joint reading with another mystery writer on Saturday, 20 March?
Oh yes.
Deb, that's great! WHOOT!
Who's the other author?
deborah grabien - Feb 14, 2004 6:24:56 am PST #791 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(blink)
Java, good question; she told me at the beginning of the conversation, but my head was covered with goop and I was desperately trying to figure out how to get her promotional materials, before I remembered the readerville gallery page, and I was scrabbling for a pen and the salon's sound system was cranked up. Familiarish name from the mystery shelves, woman, I want to say Laura something. Has read at Book Passage before, I know that.
Dani - Feb 14, 2004 8:59:30 am PST #792 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Yay for more deb readings! Was the other author Laura Lippman, perchance?
Brat Farrar is my favourite by Tey, but The Franchise Affair runs a close second. Oh, and Miss Pym Disposes!
sj, I liked The Reader , but I didn't feel particularly emotionally involved by it - and this at a time when (thanks to hormones) I cry at everything, including those Moveon.org commercials. OTOH, it could be that I'm just too woolly-headed from lack of sleep to appreciate a more demanding book right now.
Stupid things I have done this week thanks to sleep deprivation:
1. poured apple juice in my coffee.
2. tried to put two contacts in one eye (not admitting how long it took me to figure out what was wrong with my eyesight).