Also, I can kill you with my brain.

River ,'Trash'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."


Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 8:03:41 am PDT #11587 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Did people here say they had a hard time getting into Changeless? Because I did. I'm finally past the halfway point (and, uh, it's pretty obvious that Alexia is pregnant, right? [DON'T ANSWER THAT]), and I'm finally engrossed in it. But I can't put my finger on what made it so hard to get into this time.

Which is not to say that I won't read Blameless, because I will.

(Like a total geek, I have a list of what books are coming out when: Mockingjay in August, Blameless and the new Skulduggery Pleasant in September, and Behemoth [Scott Westerfeld's sequel to Leviathan] in October. And I am not a patient woman.)


Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2010 8:07:59 am PDT #11588 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

But I can't put my finger on what made it so hard to get into this time.

I had the opposite experience. I got into it much faster than I got into Soulless since it went right into the plot.


Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 8:11:49 am PDT #11589 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

It's possible that since I tried to start it when I was in the middle of oh-crap-my-antidepressant-isn't-working that I just couldn't concentrate.


Strix - Jun 16, 2010 10:53:38 am PDT #11590 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I will have to pick up The Hunger Games sometimes soon, as I hear so much good about it.


megan walker - Jun 16, 2010 11:37:37 am PDT #11591 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I will have to pick up The Hunger Games sometimes soon, as I hear so much good about it.

Yes! I was all set to buy it for my niece's birthday and was saddened to learn that she had read them both already.


meara - Jun 16, 2010 12:07:25 pm PDT #11592 of 28343

I was trying to explain the premise of Hunger Games to my mom and she looked at me funny and said "and you read this for FUN?". Apparently I did not convince her that postapocalyptic struggle to survive against people trying to kill you is entertaining?


megan walker - Jun 16, 2010 12:53:15 pm PDT #11593 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Apparently I did not convince her that postapocalyptic struggle to survive against people trying to kill you is entertaining

And, don't forget, it's televised!


Steph L. - Jun 16, 2010 5:03:37 pm PDT #11594 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

May the odds be ever in your favor!

I finished Changeless, and I was right about what I guessed, although I didn't see the twist coming afterward. Interesting.

Also -- oh, IVY.


Atropa - Jun 16, 2010 5:09:49 pm PDT #11595 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

although I didn't see the twist coming afterward. Interesting.

IIIEEEEE I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER! And good lord Conal better stop being a jerk.


Strix - Jun 16, 2010 7:11:38 pm PDT #11596 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Yeah, Jilli, I kinda thought that was an asspull. I mean, has a soulless ever gotten together with a were before? Geez, leap right into the Pit o' Conclusions, dude.