GRRM reading a chapter from Winds of Winter (i.e., the next book.)
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 28, 2013 5:47:06 am PST #20501 of 28359
Art Crawl!!!
Consuela - Feb 28, 2013 6:12:18 am PST #20502 of 28359
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sox, I knew you would like it!
Jesse - Mar 03, 2013 4:59:59 am PST #20503 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been re-reading all of the Miles Vorkosigan books, and I just realized why I always feel warmly towards NPR's Martin Kaste (which I looked up for the spelling) -- of course it's because of Ma Kosti and her Martin!
Also, I think I like the later books better because Naismith stresses me out.
-t - Mar 03, 2013 6:34:34 am PST #20504 of 28359
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, man, Gooseberry Bluff is so good! The next one is actually coming out soonish?
sumi - Mar 03, 2013 7:41:17 am PST #20505 of 28359
Art Crawl!!!
I hope so!!!
sj - Mar 03, 2013 7:53:58 am PST #20506 of 28359
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oh, man, Gooseberry Bluff is so good! The next one is actually coming out soonish?
In 2 days if my math is correct. I can't wait for the next installment!
Amy - Mar 03, 2013 7:59:09 am PST #20507 of 28359
Because books.
Does anyone have the link to where it starts? I meant to bookmark the original post about it and never did, I guess.
Also, anyone read Maisie Dobbs? I had to put it down. I think the idea is fantastic, and I love the time period, and setting, but sentences like "They agreed to meet at seven and bade each other good-bye, then replaced their respective telephone receivers" is just too much micro-pacing and unnecessary detail for me.
sj - Mar 03, 2013 8:01:57 am PST #20508 of 28359
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy, you can purchase the kindle version here. You pay once, and the subsequent installments upload automatically at no additional charge.
Amy - Mar 03, 2013 8:07:26 am PST #20509 of 28359
Because books.
Thank you!
askye - Mar 03, 2013 8:21:29 am PST #20510 of 28359
Thrive to spite them
I'm reading the series. I kind of skim over that stuff and get to to the story. The writer is actually pretty good about having various strings that come together in a rather neat package.
I'm reading the Phryne Fisher series (first book Cocaine Blues) that's set in Australia and has some similarities to the Maisie Dobbs series. Both set in the same time period (roughly) both women were nurses in WWI, both were born poor but their circumstances changed (in Phyrne's all the male relatives died and her father inheirted a title).
But I will say that Phryne wanders into the Mary Sue territory quite a bit. She's beautiful! She flies planes! She dances! She has a gun! She's fearless! She's fashionable! Men find her super sexy. However the books are a bit shorter than the Maisie Dobbs books and they are fluff but enjoyable fluff.