Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.
'Never Leave Me'
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 - Sep 13, 2013 5:25:38 am PDT #21394 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Strix - Sep 13, 2013 8:43:05 am PDT #21395 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So, if I want to check out Gillian Flynn, should I start with Gone Girl?
sj - Sep 13, 2013 8:46:40 am PDT #21396 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Strix, I think Gone Girl is her best book plot wise, but I also really enjoyed her other two books. I read them in the reverse order that she wrote them in.
javachik - Sep 13, 2013 9:22:03 am PDT #21397 of 28370
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, you can read them in any order you want. Enjoy! Or, perhaps, "enjoy" isn't quite the right word.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2013 9:50:42 am PDT #21398 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix,
we are your Gone Girl support group. Feel free to start the book and post here your reactions. I am wildly entertained by the reactions. I think smonster (?) read it awhile back and I found it very entertaining.
smonster - Sep 13, 2013 9:58:12 am PDT #21399 of 28370
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
No, not me. I have it on my shelf but haven't read it yet. Been hitting the library hard this summer.
sj - Sep 13, 2013 10:02:02 am PDT #21400 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Possibly it was me, but I am happy to be confused with smonster anytime.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2013 10:06:50 am PDT #21401 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sj! dammit. you are right. I knew it was sj.
Strix - Sep 13, 2013 10:12:30 am PDT #21402 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I shall!
Consuela - Sep 14, 2013 7:49:00 am PDT #21403 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So last night I read Rose Under Fire, which is Elizabeth Wein's followup to Code Name Verity. And it's really good. And we get to see Maddie again! Spoiler: she married Jamie! So cute.
However the context of the novel is even more grim than CNV: the lead character, Rose Justice, is an American pilot working as an ATA pilot in England just around the time of the Normandy invasion. Through a series of circumstances, she ends up in a German woman's labor camp, Ravensbruck, for the last six months of the war.
It's brilliantly done, but god, it's brutal. And it's basically all true: Wein based the novel on the memoirs of women who survived Ravensbruck to talk (and testify) about it.
I thought it was excellent, but it's pretty hard going at points, even though it's written in the memoir style of CNV, so you get a certain amount of distance from the action because it's being conveyed after the fact by a survivor.
I do recommend it, but not on a day when you're feeling kind of dubious about humanity.