Started Catching Fire. Aaah! Katniss is so fucked! District 12 is so fucked! THEY ARE ALL SO FUCKED!
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Polter-Cow - Dec 05, 2010 8:08:27 am PST #13081 of 28276
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Dec 05, 2010 9:09:50 am PST #13082 of 28276
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
sumi, that's a beautiful poster! My copy of VoE is the US edition, and the art isn't nearly that nice. Still a good read, though: I liked it much better than Tongues of Serpents.
sumi - Dec 05, 2010 9:10:15 am PST #13083 of 28276
Art Crawl!!!
Kat, Crusie has the first chapter of Maybe This Time up on her website.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2010 12:36:54 pm PST #13084 of 28276
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I threw Passage across the room so hard it practically dented the wall, but I had fun with Blackout/All Clear. Maybe because it at least kept moving along fast enough that there wasn't time for me to get seriously annoyed with it.
Ginger - Dec 05, 2010 1:01:24 pm PST #13085 of 28276
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked Maybe This Time, but Crusie is also someone I really like who is starting to repeat various tics and plotlines.
I just thought Passage was depressing, but I really liked Blackout/All Clear, particularly since there turns out to be a reason for all the missed connections. In was an unabashed paean to the courage of ordinary people during the war, but I have a strong sentimental streak about that kind of heroism. Also, I was charmed by the possibility that they were fixing something Mr. Dunwoody had done.
meara - Dec 05, 2010 1:28:09 pm PST #13086 of 28276
I enjoyed Blackout/All Clear, but definitely agree with (Suela?) whoever said it could've been seriously cut down. Mostly, more than the missed connections I just thought it was overly complicated, with so many people having all these different names, and so on. And of course then you're trying to make connections even where there aren't, because there are so many. (I know from reviews that I"m not the only person who thought that surely the actor guy and Colin were related somehow )
Kat - Dec 06, 2010 3:26:59 am PST #13087 of 28276
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I liked Maybe This Time okay enough, but it just didn't grab me the way her other books did (though of course I did read it in one straight runthrough -- a gulp I guess).
Now I'm reading Mathilda Savitch and enjoying it. Video of some of the text from the book: [link] I think it's true that I like it so much because I like girls that age...think they are funny.
I read Room two weeks ago and did really enjoy and then read Stars and passed it on to a student.
zuisa - Dec 06, 2010 6:12:49 am PST #13088 of 28276
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Steph, thanks for linking to Mark Reads the Hunger Games! I'm enjoying reading them too!!
And Polter-Cow, thanks for the tip that they are all half-price on Amazon. Christmas present for brother purchased!!
sumi - Dec 06, 2010 7:33:50 am PST #13089 of 28276
Art Crawl!!!
A Swordspoint story - from Ellen Kushner and Tor.com.
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2010 12:56:01 pm PST #13090 of 28276
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha, from the latest Mark Reads:
REALLY, COLLINS. Like...WHERE DOES THIS EVEN COME FROM and DOES EVERY CHAPTER END WITH A RIDICULOUS CLIFFHANGER and WHY DON'T PEOPLE WRITE BOOKS THAT ARE EASY TO REVIEW A CHAPTER AT A TIME.
Hee. Collins's chapter endings really are evil, but they never feel particularly cheap or contrived. Because the danger they tease at is real, and it continues to be real in the next chapter.