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I am home from New York. Actually, I was home Friday evening, but didn't get around to updating anything. And I was in New Jersey for a few days there as well, but didn't update there either. Mostly because I can check email from my cell phone, but anything more complicated than that requires a computer. And we were cleaning at Andrea's. Everyone who wasn't there but was invited should be very sad because it was fabulously clean, and it was very fun.

I really truly thought it was going to suck. I mean, for heaven's sake, it's a *vampire* novel. But I got it for free, and I needed something to read on the trip, and I have liked some of her past novels. (Though I still hate Outlaws of Sherwood with such a passion.) But it's a heck of a lot better than I thought it would be. It's Buffy and it's Bordertown, but luckily not so fluffy. I mean, I like them both, but they're ultimately fluffy. Even Buffy ends up being a fairytale, it's just one of the real fairytales, not the bowdlerized ones. So I was sure it would suck, and it didn't. It really impressed me. I'd forgotten--or maybe never before noticed--how solid Robin makes her worlds. It's all about the telling details, and her details are perfect and real, and I really enjoyed the book. It really needs a sequel, but it solved the problem it presented, so it's not that it needs a sequel, just that the same solidity of the world makes me sure that the author knows more about the story than she told, and thus I want a sequel. But we'll have to wait and see. She says not planned at the moment, but I got more Damar stories when I waited long enough (A Knot in the Grain--4 of the 5 stories are of Damar, if I remember correctly, though you have to pay pretty close attention to realize that) I went into Sunshine thinking it was going to turn into a Romance Novel, with the perky heroine and her brooding-but-good vampire boyfriend, whereupon I would be forced to throw the book out of a moving vehicle. Luckily, it's more of a relationship story--Sunshine and Constantine, Sunshine and Mel, Sunshine and her mother, her grandmother, her siblings, her stepfather, her friends, the rest of the world, herself, etc. It's not so much about growing up as when you realize that you are grown up. And so, I liked it. And I think that others will like it, and I know that others will hate it for not romantizing vampires and such, and others will find things wrong with it mechanically, but I liked it. so there.

Best spam headline lately: "essential chimera alternate" I really love the new spam with its tendency towards near coherence, but a very surrealistic coherence.

Comments

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

I agree on the spam. The new names of senders are also good. Repulsive Q. Cooping, for example. Damn, I want to write about a character named Repulsive Q. Cooping. Or Punctiliously H. Thrushes. Or Marquees I. Flappers. Or Bluenose D. Masquerader. Or ParisHiltonVideo. No, wait, that's something different.

I'd like to get them all together in a room, and ply them with liquor, put on some Bach or trance, and see what they'd say to each other.

[ktempest.livejournal.com]

i agree about Sunshine. Considering the vampires and the obvious beauty and the beast nod, it was surprisingly good. we may have to spread the word about this book.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I loffed Sunshine, except for the last page and a half or so. I don't think there was any one thing especially brilliant about it, but it's just so overall well-done. I wanted it not to end.