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posted by [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com at 09:48am on 31/05/2004
*beams at you*

As a weird coincidence, I'm reading Lamb right now :) Well not RIGHT now, because RIGHT now I'm replying to you but I was reading it 5 minutes ago before I got out of the bath.

Yay baths!

And I have to second your Marillier rec as well.

ANd I hate Bobby Flay with a passion. HE Should be flayed. Fillet of flay! Except, grr. My intense loathing knows no bounds.

Ok, I feel better. *kicks Flay*

Also, weee! Hi!
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posted by [identity profile] fitofpique.livejournal.com at 09:58am on 31/05/2004
Soapy swmbo? Nice!

*insert gratuitous leering*
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posted by [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com at 10:02am on 31/05/2004

*shimmies for you*

yes! All slidey and slippery and floating in the water, hurray!

I need a bigger bathtub. *pulls you in with her*
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posted by [identity profile] fitofpique.livejournal.com at 10:05am on 31/05/2004
Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

*gets sudsy*

*hands you the loofah*
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 10:24am on 31/05/2004
Have you read Marillier's second book? The sequel to Daughter of the Forest? I haven't, but I sort of wanted to know if it was as good as the first before I bought it. So.

Hi! *gropes you*
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posted by [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com at 10:39am on 31/05/2004
*beams at you*

I read all three, actually, and one right after the other. It's been a year and a half or so, but I remember really liking the second one - Son of the Shadows - and being good with the third, but not loving as much as the other two.

Unless I got that reversed, hee ! But I think it's worth the money, although it tends to move away from the retelling aspect which is what intially brought me in - I have a weakness for fairytales retold.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 11:46am on 31/05/2004
Right. Then I am decided that I will use my Borders gift card to get another Christopher Moore novel because hello, teh funneh! And Son of the Shadows. If it ever stops raining and I want to leave the house, that is.

Have you read Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock? It's one of my very favorites; a lovely retelling of Tam Lin. It's just now back in print and totally worth a read.
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posted by [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com at 12:03pm on 31/05/2004
Ohh, I haven't! Although I've read a lot of her stuff, but that one I'd never seen in print. I must look for it!

And, god, yes Moore - I want to get Fluke next, although I still have the biggest soft spot ever for Bloodsucking Fiends, because it killed me dead.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 31/05/2004
Lamb is the only Moore I've read; I'm going to pick up Bloodsucking Fiends with the gift card. Am mucho looking forward to it.
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posted by [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com at 06:43pm on 31/05/2004
Lamb is more...sophisticated, you can tell Bloodthirsty Fiends is older but it's...god, it's hysterical.

Also Practical Demonkeeping, the first of his books - you remember the demon Catch in Lamb? The one that was released? That entire scene is a reference to Practical Demonkeeping and the sequel.

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posted by [identity profile] bryiarrose.livejournal.com at 07:30pm on 31/05/2004
if you felt similarly to how i did, you're remembering properly. i loved son of the shadows but child of the prophecy was less... something. also, her new series, beginning with wolfskin last summer and which promises us another book this summer, started off well. the same somewhat slow lead in, but i couldn't put it down by the end. the way that woman tells a story... :)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 31/05/2004
I think it must be her style ... it wasn't the story that I found initially slow, just the actual reading. Once I adjusted to her language patterns and so on, I couldn't put it down.

Now I'm definitely going to use this Borders card to get the sequel to Daughter of the Forest. Mmmm.

Have you read anything by Garth Nix, hon? I think you'd like him. Sabriel and the sequel Lirael are both gorgeous, and very inventive unusual sort of fantasy stories.
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