Kate Elliot talks about Crown of Stars on the occasion of the release of the complete series to e-book in the UK.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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."
sumi - Feb 13, 2013 4:50:23 am PST #20411 of 28354
Art Crawl!!!
Amy - Feb 13, 2013 5:10:27 am PST #20412 of 28354
Because books.
That's why I have rejected using it.
To be clear, I like that you can create groups, like megan has done, and I enjoy taking part in those. It's just the site as a whole is so cluttered and busy now, it feels like Facebook, so I don't use it for much other than groups.
megan walker - Feb 13, 2013 6:15:30 am PST #20413 of 28354
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Scholarly Kitchen covers Bookish.
Huh, when I checked it out, I didn't look at it as an Amazon competitor. Since I don't buy many books, that makes it even less interesting.
I found the ads on Bookish particularly distracting, but I'm sure that's only because I'm not used to them.
I mostly use Goodreads for tracking what I read and want to read. Besides librarians, I don't really interact with people I'm not friends with, so I don't have issues with the whole social clique thing.
Polter-Cow - Feb 13, 2013 7:11:15 am PST #20414 of 28354
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I don't use Goodreads as a social thing besides following what my friends are reading. I don't accept friend requests from people I don't know because, you know, I don't care about their opinions.
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2013 7:32:01 am PST #20415 of 28354
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 7:37:39 am PST #20416 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I read Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith the other day. It's the story of a light-skinned black woman whose father taught her to fly his crop-duster. So during WWII, she decides to pass for white so she can become a WASP.
It's really very good, although as a YA it's a bit light. I wanted more detail and drama, although the drama I got was pretty good. I just wanted more of it. And I wouldn't mind hearing what happens afterwards, since the war ends without her ever telling the WASP or her fellow pilots who she really is.
meara - Feb 13, 2013 8:14:40 am PST #20417 of 28354
Ooh, that sounds right up my alley. I will look it up.
Amy - Feb 13, 2013 8:24:16 am PST #20418 of 28354
Because books.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 2:04:53 pm PST #20419 of 28354
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Amy, that's fantastic. I want someone to do one for Spike or Angel, or for Francis Crawford.
In other news, I have become predictable. I'm reading a new epic fantasy recommended by Sherwood Smith, and I'm three or four chapters in, and the only named female characters are the flirtatious shopgirl and the Evil Sorceress Queen from the country next door.
On edit: and this makes me cranky.
Sigh.
hippocampus - Feb 13, 2013 3:11:04 pm PST #20420 of 28354
not your mom's socks.
Which one is this?
Sherwood's been writing things all week that make me grin.