In the past two weeks I have finished three books that I really enjoyed (Girl Gone, Devil Said Bang, and, Frost Burned) now I can't figure out what to read next. Any suggestions? I have to take a couple things back to the library today, so I'll probably look around there. We're headed to Mom's tomorrow for the weekend, and I'd like to have something good with me.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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."
sj - May 09, 2013 10:50:46 am PDT #20761 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Steph L. - May 09, 2013 10:52:20 am PDT #20762 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I really enjoyed The Diviners, by Libba Bray.
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2013 11:49:15 am PDT #20763 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Have you read anything by N.K. Jemisin, sj? She's my new Recommend to Everyone. If you're in a fantasy mood, check out The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (first in a trilogy) or The Killing Moon (first in a duology).
hippocampus - May 09, 2013 12:01:34 pm PDT #20764 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
seconding PC's rec for N.K. Jemisin.
-t - May 09, 2013 12:12:23 pm PDT #20765 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What is apparently the last Sookie Stackhouse novel is out. I've got it (I find this series perfect for reading while lounging in the sun and maybe dozing off) but I haven't started it yet.
Ginger - May 09, 2013 12:18:17 pm PDT #20766 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman is my current favorite. Also, I've just read Elizabeth Speller's two mysteries set in post-WWI Britain. The writing is lovely and the mysteries are complex.
le nubian - May 09, 2013 12:35:01 pm PDT #20767 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks for the recs. I became dissatisfied with the book I'm reading so I had to stop. I need to pick up another book an restart it.
for the love of god, I need to finish reamde too.
JZ - May 09, 2013 12:37:52 pm PDT #20768 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray, or anything at all by Kate Atkinson. Or, to pimp for a moment, the Roz Kaveney SFF novel I co-edited last year that's racking up a metric buttload of awards and spots on best-of lists.
Strix - May 09, 2013 12:43:33 pm PDT #20769 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I second the Kaveney book!
Connie Neil - May 09, 2013 12:52:26 pm PDT #20770 of 28370
brillig
JZ, is your publishing venture still a going concern?