Looks like Kate Elliott is embroiled in a Twitter conversation about worldbuilding and privilege, and it's really interesting. I'm going to have to add her to my to-read list. The Crossroads trilogy seems more up my alley than Cold Magic.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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."
Polter-Cow - Aug 10, 2013 11:40:48 am PDT #21240 of 28379
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Aug 10, 2013 12:13:10 pm PDT #21241 of 28379
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well me too. Loved that and plan to read her books now.
Thanks for discussing the books here. I'm going to go buy some.
Typo Boy - Aug 10, 2013 12:44:36 pm PDT #21242 of 28379
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Vicky Blitz could sometimes be very very funny, at her best as funny as Peabody.
Consuela - Aug 10, 2013 12:50:41 pm PDT #21243 of 28379
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks for discussing the books here. I'm going to go buy some.
Yay! And if y'all trust my judgment, do go find Martha Well's Cloud Roads, which has a deadly-but-woobiefyable lead, incredible world-building, bizarre but oddly endearing alien cultural structures, and a matriarchal society--oh, and nearly everyone is a flying shapeshifter.
So. Cool.
Also, the lead, Moon, is basically John Sheppard, but with wings. If you like the laconic loner who underneath it all just really wants a family.
ETA: you can get the whole Raksura trilogy on Kindle for $20...
Dana - Aug 12, 2013 4:22:52 am PDT #21244 of 28379
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
hippocampus - Aug 12, 2013 8:07:44 am PDT #21245 of 28379
not your mom's socks.
Martha Well's Cloud Roads
YES
And Cold Magic too.
In short: TRUST CONSUELA.
Toddson - Aug 13, 2013 7:41:00 am PDT #21246 of 28379
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I was sad to hear about Barbara Mertz. I found her books years ago and, after catching up on her backlist, had to WAIT as new ones came out. In one review, they commented that the librarians had to keep her books in a locked cabinet so people waiting for them wouldn't lose their place in the queue.
And, speaking of librarians, the romance novel idea was for (librarian) Jacqueline Kirby in "Die for Love" (which takes place at a romance writer convention). She writes it, is successful, and there's a follow-up novel, called "Naked Once More" or some such.
And they made a movie out of "Ammmie Come Home" with, I think, Barbara Stanwyck in it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2013 5:00:20 pm PDT #21247 of 28379
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Don't ever change, Gwyneth: [link]
Consuela - Aug 13, 2013 7:45:06 pm PDT #21248 of 28379
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So the new Temeraire novel is out. I just downloaded it onto my Kindle...
Kate P. - Aug 14, 2013 9:45:00 am PDT #21249 of 28379
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Whoa, I had no idea that was out! Must track down a copy.