'Time Bomb'
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."
On a quest to recapture my literary childhood, I'm trying to track down some books. Since I found some titles I'd owned in a Kenyan bookstore, I figure the American YA books should be trivial to locate, right?
The imprint's stories were about Chicano teens and their cultural identity. The one I remember most clearly is about a teenaged boy, perhaps a runaway, who has a cardboard cutout of Che Guevara that talks to him.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
According to his publisher, Peter Beagle never got paid for the movie version of The Last Unicorn. [link]
They have a list of books for sale, but I don't actually want any of them. I'd buy an autographed edition of A Fine and Private Place or The Folk of the Air, but they're apparently out of print. Too bad.
In other news, there was a piece on NPR about the mainstreaming of science fiction. They talked to Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguru, and Susanna Clarke. They noticeably did not talk to Margaret Atwood. Heh.
It's very frustrating to have genre conventions become so inextricably entwined with content. Ah, well.
While looking for a list of books by an author (Ann C. Fallon) I came upon the Internet Book List. . .it's like the IMDB, except it's for books!
I hate that Peter S. Beagle, who is such a good author, has never been financially successful. I do wonder how someone else got legal custody of his mother.
I still think his adaption of LOTR was better than Walsh's. I wish PJ had gotten Beagle, instead of his partner and Phillipa Boyens.
Anyone reading Anansi Boys? Dear god, I am LOVING it.
I am, and I am. I'm maybe 2/3 through. Very fun. I do think I liked American Gods more, though.
I'm maybe 2/3 of the way through, too. I may go back and re-read American Gods when I'm finished. I really liked American Gods, but it was also intellectually tough slogging, for me.
I fear my book budget only stretched to Thud! for new releases.
I am JEALOUS of you Anansi Boy havers, though.
It and Coraline are the only two books I've bought for myself in months. I love my library.
Waiting for the library to get SoUE 12 into their system rather than this "on order" crap, would be nice, though
I got it from the library, as I am NOT one of the Buffistas who eschew the library since they can't stand to give the books back.