Buffistas

I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'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."

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Consuela - Aug 10, 2013 12:50:41 pm PDT #21243 of 28406

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 28406

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Knut's Gooseberry Bluff Community etc. etc. on sale for Kindle today.

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hippocampus - Aug 12, 2013 8:07:44 am PDT #21245 of 28406

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 28406

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 28406

"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 28406

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 28406

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.

Consuela - Aug 14, 2013 1:03:20 pm PDT #21250 of 28406

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm halfway through, and it's dealing with one of my bullet proof narrative kinks. Yum.

Kate P. - Aug 15, 2013 7:56:52 am PDT #21251 of 28406

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Requested from the library! I'm glad you're enjoying it, Suela.

ION, romance readers will want to check out this video of romance authors answering a very important question. My coworker made it and it's short and funny: [link]

Amy - Aug 18, 2013 5:51:27 am PDT #21252 of 28406

Because books.

That's cute.

Did anyone else read The Passage by Justin Cronin? I'm only 137 pages in (of 879) but I can't put it down.

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