Hey, Knut the Difficult got some good press today: [link]
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
Willow ,'Potential'
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."
Consuela - Jun 12, 2013 6:47:50 pm PDT #20893 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-t - Jun 12, 2013 6:58:20 pm PDT #20894 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, good! And well deserved, Gooseberry Bluff is a great serial.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2013 9:33:38 am PDT #20895 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loved Brandon Sanderson's Hugo-nominated novella, The Emperor's Soul, so now I am really interested in finally checking him out. The novella is set in the world of Elantris, which is a stand-alone, so I'm looking at that one first (although from what I read of the description, I'm not sure how much of what I liked in the novella comes from that book). Warbreaker is also stand-alone. I know his famous series is Mistborn, but maybe I'll do the two stand-alones first, especially since Sanderson says they complement each other.
meara - Jun 17, 2013 6:00:57 pm PDT #20896 of 28370
I love post-apocalyptic stuff, but I may have burned out. I read a couple recently and was like "no more! Too depressing!" (I mean actual "oh crap the moon exploded/flu went epidemic", not dystopian "sex is banned and the government controls your hairstyle"ones, I still like those)
Other random rant: read an interesting book ("Golden Boy") about an intersex kid. But the synopsis did not mention part of the whole book is about (made it sound like its about the kids dad running for office, and the drama....but it's NOT. I mean, that happens, but more the book starts out with stuff that needs a serious trigger warning and gets fucked up from there. Which, it was still interesting but I felt a bit traumatized myself, and I don't have triggers like that. Ick.
Ginger - Jun 17, 2013 6:23:16 pm PDT #20897 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
You say this as I'm about to start The Way We Fall.
I'm glad to see you're differentiating between post-apocalyptic and dystopian. I am irritated every time someone lumps both under dystopian.
(Did you see that Susan Beth Pfeffer has written a fourth "oh crap the moon exploded" book?)
meara - Jun 17, 2013 7:01:28 pm PDT #20898 of 28370
She did? Geez, I just yesterday finished the first one! (I did not start on the "gee everyone is dead of some illness" one that's in my queue). Instead I am reading a book about a gay boy who goes to boarding school and decides to re-closet himself. It's interesting so far, if not super amazing. I am enjoying that there's gay YA these days that isn't just "oh shit I'm gay wtf ahhhh"
hippocampus - Jun 17, 2013 11:44:51 pm PDT #20899 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Alaya Dawn Johnston's The Summer Prince. That is all.
sumi - Jun 18, 2013 9:45:29 am PDT #20900 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo! Both Gooseberry Bluffs and Indexing updated.
-t - Jun 18, 2013 1:54:37 pm PDT #20901 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I kinda wish they were on alternating weeks instead of both updating at once, but I'll take what they give me.
Strix - Jun 23, 2013 8:00:52 am PDT #20902 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Read Mira Grant's Parasite Friday. SO GOOD. And I am so impressed with her research skills, although the science is beyond me; I can follow it, and it...makes me wanna look up tapeworms. It is science fiction in the best sense of the word.
Interview with Grant forthcoming in the next two weeks, as I have to re-read and take some notes, as of course I just mainlined it happily the first read.
I got the ARC through NetGalley, which made me VERY VERY happy, as I've been twitching like a junkie waiting to read it.