Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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."
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2013 7:32:01 am PST #20415 of 28355
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 28355
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 28355
Ooh, that sounds right up my alley. I will look it up.
Amy - Feb 13, 2013 8:24:16 am PST #20418 of 28355
Because books.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 2:04:53 pm PST #20419 of 28355
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 28355
not your mom's socks.
Which one is this?
Sherwood's been writing things all week that make me grin.
Consuela - Feb 13, 2013 3:13:10 pm PST #20421 of 28355
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tom Simon's The End of Earth and Sky. The writing's not bad, but at the moment it feels very much like potboy-becomes-Hero, with an overlay of Woefully Misunderstood, since the frame story is that he's on trial for being The Big Bad.
hippocampus - Feb 13, 2013 3:29:11 pm PST #20422 of 28355
not your mom's socks.
oh. my. Going to look some more.
Miracleman - Feb 15, 2013 4:34:05 am PST #20423 of 28355
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Anybody read Pratchett's "Snuff" yet? Just finished it and was disturbed by how not-quite-Pratchett it was.
Has his daughter started ghostwriting for him already?
Liese S. - Feb 15, 2013 4:38:06 am PST #20424 of 28355
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have it. Have you read his other recent non-Discworld stuff? I feel like it's probably in line with that stuff.