Comments on: Larbfeld report (updated)

By: Cecelia(C.C)

Cecelia(C.C) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:33:24 +0000

cricket historical romance.

it is hot.

By: molly

molly — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:40:00 +0000

Going out on a limb to vote for the vintage clothing girl as I spent all of Saturday and a good bit of Friday shopping and it was so dreadful I like the idea of someone with a good relationship to clothes!

(All dreadful but for the shoe-shopping part, I should say. That was only dreadful because I didn’t have $200 to spend on the cutest pair of shoes in the entire universe.)

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:31:11 +0000

Surely you could get all those topics in one book!:) I’m in large trouble with the students at my school. I’ve been promoting books that will arrive soon in the library, and of course they’re dying to read the Magic or Madness trilogy. How cruel of me to put the covers of books that are not-yet-arrived new releases on computer desktops! I’m just going to have to break down and go to the book store…when’s payday?:)

By: lili

lili — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:46:19 +0000

cricket historical romance.

hot.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:07:43 +0000

I was just being silly.

We had dramatic storytelling yesterday at lunch. It consisted of me reading portions of blogs (namely, yours, Scott’s and Maureen’s) to my coworker Claire.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:30:47 +0000

Little Willow: If I told you the answer to that question it would be too massive a spoiler. You’ll just have to wait.

By: little willow

little willow — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:21:14 +0000

If the babies don’t kill ghosts and the ghosts don’t kill babies, then what is it REALLY about? Hmmm? Mangosteens killing pomegranates? Hmmm?

By: halduncan

halduncan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:19:01 +0000

All i’ll say is… picture Samuel L. Jackson saying, “i’m sick of these motherfucking werewolves on their motherfucking snowboards.”

Snowboarding werewolves… how could it *not* be brilliant.

By: John H

John H — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:26:26 +0000

On the Hair issue, I admit I haven’t followed cricket enough to know Hair from a hole in the ground.

I think it was a bit silly of him to stand by his forfeiture ruling if both teams are willing to continue playing. But then again, he did warn the Pakistanis that they would forfeit if they didn’t return to the pitch. They should have come out and finished the match and filed a protest later. By refusing to continue they made a mountain out of a molehill…

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:59:05 +0000

I am agnostic on the whole voting thing. As in, I believe that these possibilities exist but refuse to tie myself down. Just to be tricky.

And I have an important message for Maureen: SHAME! Shame, shame, shame. She’s too funny to not let us comment. Plus she sounds like she has some great dirt on the westerestiers. That could come in handy, you know.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:27:05 +0000

Feminist mangosteens, always.

By: Justine

Justine — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:01:39 +0000

John H: Do not get me started or I’ll froth at the mouth. Hair has to be sacked immediately. He’s a disgrace. Almost as big a disgrace as the obnoxious New York Times article about the incident. Gah!

Redknight: No, I’m not worried. See my full answer here.

By: dylan

dylan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:22:19 +0000

Umm…I’d vote for either the compulsive liar book or The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel…but if it was between both of them I’d probaly pick…compulsive liar book for i am unfortantly one…HAHA HAHA HAHA:)

By: Susan Loyal

Susan Loyal — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:53:44 +0000

Another vote for “The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel”, because i can’t wait to see how it all comes together. (unless there’s a way to combine vintage clothing store with werewolf snowboarding–in which case i might vote for that as even more mind-bendingly combinatory.)

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:13:43 +0000

I’m going to go with the gasfmk-fcemf novel, because fairy tales rule, whatever format they take. But I’d also love to see the vintage-clothing story, because hey, what an awesome talent.

By: John H

John H — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:15:00 +0000

I vote for the great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel – as long as it’s a serious treatment…

as an aside – any comment on the whole Pakistan-Hair fiasco?

By: claire

claire — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:41:27 +0000

elvis mangosteen fairy, dewd, and you KNOW it.

why? because that’s really the only one you’ve been talking about on this blog, and that with much desire and longing and in-love-sounding noises.

plus, i got to hear you read a preview of it in san francisco and i’m ready to read the thing already.

By: redknight

redknight — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:09:54 +0000

what if some one steals these ideas? I am not joking.

By: little willow

little willow — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:49:37 +0000

Are babies killing ghosts, or are ghosts killing babies? Or are ghost babies killing living babies who appear to be poltergeists but really are changelings from the Underworld?

Go with the vintage. Natch.

Maureen’s post is hilarious. Westeralestiers is the buzzword.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:24:11 +0000

“The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel”

because I’ve been hearing about it forever, and I want to finally hear more about mangosteens, Australia, and cricket. And the fairies are a big plus too.

Although, I also like werewolves….

By: Justine

Justine — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:22:28 +0000

Thanks for all the opinions!

The compulsive liar is, in fact, the narrator. And the ghost does not kill the babies. Of course, I’m referring to cricket the sport. Bloody Americans! Also, Innle, you made me giggle.

I wish Maureen’s blog had comments, too. You could comment here and thus we could shame her into activating comments . . .

By: robinwasserman

robinwasserman — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:59:31 +0000

I’m going to be a rebel as well and vote for the compulsive liar book, but only if the compulsive liar is also the narrator. Because imagine what you could do with that! By the way, when you say cricket, are you referring to (it only now occurs to me) the sport? I’ve been picturing a knife-wielding cricket with a white jumpsuit and Elvis pompadour.

By: Barry Goldblatt

Barry Goldblatt — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:04:51 +0000

OK, well, now YOU have to win a prize so your publisher sends you to WFC! *pleads*

Guess i’ll buck the trend and go for the werewolf snowboarding epic…I mean, come on, the film potential alone makes it worth it!

P.S. No fair, Maureen has no commenting on her blog! Where’s the fun in that?

Have fun at Worldcon!

By: innle

innle — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:23:29 +0000

*insert ticky box here* The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel. Clearly.

The obvious solution to choosing between the other books is to mash them together in an unholy slurry. Who wouldn’t want to read about a baby-killing, facelifted compulsive liar? Just because she’s a ghost doesn’t mean Hollywood isn’t out to get her . . . so she goes on the lam with her boyfriend, the werewolf. He invented cricket hundreds of years ago but has since branched out into snowboarding. He is, understandably, less than impressed at getting dragged to the notably snowless Northern Territory, but he soon has bigger concerns: a multi-family, multi-racial killing spree. And it’s heading straight for the vintage clothing shop that’s their only refuge . . .

A chilling tour de force. Five stars!

By which I mean, hi, I’ll be over here now. *hides*

By: jennifer, aka literaticat

jennifer, aka literaticat — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:05:26 +0000

The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel, because I love monkey knife fights and Elvis and mangosteens and ladies and ESPECIALLY AUSTRALIANS.

Though I am just so-so on fairies and cricket.

Or the vintage clothes one, because it sounds like she’d be quirky and funny, and I love quirky-funny-girl stories.