Buffy ,'Showtime'
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."
Does her ring have a pearl in it, or am I mixing her and Anne Shirley up?
Don't remember Little House well enough, but Anne's ring is definitely pearls. She said she'd always been disappointed in diamonds when the reality didn't match up to her imagination.
I think that Laura's ring was a pearl and garnets.
Thanks for the link -- that would be a great accompaniment to a reread of the books!
A question for fellow romance readers: Are books with heroes who rape the heroines actually still out there? As in, published by a reasonably major print publisher in the last 5 years as a new work, not a reissue of a Woodiwiss or something?
(This question may or may not be related to a writing contest entry I'm judging, with a hero who may or may not be the complete opposite of anything I'd ever find heroic.)
Susan, I do not know of any in at least 5 years, and I read a lot of romance.
I didn't think so, but I'm a fairly selective reader, so I thought there might be a whole mini-trend I'm missing out on. In general, I'm surprised how many contest entries I've run across that feel like throwbacks to those 1970's bodice rippers.
The wip has a scene where a villain attempts to rape the heroine--she fights back, buying herself enough time that the hero is able to come to the rescue. I remember writing the scene and thinking, "Back in the day, a lot of authors would've had the rapist be the hero," and finding the idea sickening.
Are books with heroes who rape the heroines
Laura Kinsale's The Shadow and the Star. Twice. It's Micole's favorite Kinsale, and it seriously put me off her. Although I don't think it came out in the last 5 years, don't know how old it is.
Pretty sure that's older than 5 years. I've never read it, but I generally adore Kinsale. Interesting.
Is there a web site where you can search for a book by describing it? (Versus the way you search on Amazon, for instance.) I seem to remember someone mentioning something like that a while ago....
abebooks.co.uk? I've never used it, but I've heard good things about their BookSleuth forum.