For a while my library was giving out bookmarks with lists like that
And ten to one they were getting the content for them from either the Canadian Library Association, or, more likely, Fiction-L. Librarians are no more fond of reinventing the wheel than anyone else [g].
when I actually try to read any such list, I am invariably disappointed
Precisely. And when I say that I'm looking for another series that has the same things in common that the Amelias and the Miles books have in common with each other, people just do the online equivalent of staring at me like I've got two heads. As if the Amelias and the Miles books can't possibly have anything in common just because their settings are so different.
But there are heroes who are similarly clever and resourceful.
But you know, I don't think even that's what's relevant. What's relevant to me is that they're whole, rounded, imperfect people having bigger than life adventures, not that they happen to have certain character traits.
And Heyer. Ptui. Sorry. I have the feeling that the main reason I don't like Heyer (aside from her writing style, which just annoys me) is that she doesn't do those whole, rounded, imperfect people having bigger than life adventures. She does these mincing socially correct people being clever at each other.
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Date: 2007-11-10 12:45 am (UTC)And ten to one they were getting the content for them from either the Canadian Library Association, or, more likely, Fiction-L. Librarians are no more fond of reinventing the wheel than anyone else [g].
Precisely. And when I say that I'm looking for another series that has the same things in common that the Amelias and the Miles books have in common with each other, people just do the online equivalent of staring at me like I've got two heads. As if the Amelias and the Miles books can't possibly have anything in common just because their settings are so different.
But there are heroes who are similarly clever and resourceful.
But you know, I don't think even that's what's relevant. What's relevant to me is that they're whole, rounded, imperfect people having bigger than life adventures, not that they happen to have certain character traits.
And Heyer. Ptui. Sorry. I have the feeling that the main reason I don't like Heyer (aside from her writing style, which just annoys me) is that she doesn't do those whole, rounded, imperfect people having bigger than life adventures. She does these mincing socially correct people being clever at each other.