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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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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Amy - Jan 03, 2014 5:14:07 pm PST #21814 of 28370
Because books.

That's what happens with some books, Tep. The Kindle edition was $3.71 so I just bought it. I'll give it another go. I like Libba! I want to support her work! I just also want to like it.

The Snow Child was such slow going at first, and so melancholy, but I got to the second part, and more is going on now. I like her style and I love the idea of the story, so I'm glad.

I also really hate not finishing books, though I know it's allowed.

I've never heard of a A Corner of White, Kat. I'll look it up.

Kat - Jan 04, 2014 11:16:21 am PST #21815 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy, I think you'd really like A Corner of White, but it does require some patience.

My favorite part of The Snow Child is the way that the characters change places in their ability to hold the reality of the girl. Like they are never on the same page in terms of disbelief and belief.

megan walker - Jan 04, 2014 11:57:41 am PST #21816 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I loved The Snow Child although I agree that it presents a rough start that might lead one to put it down.

erikaj - Jan 04, 2014 3:15:18 pm PST #21817 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!

"How to Be A Woman" made me think of Fay. (I think she and the author use similar expressions.)

Gris - Jan 04, 2014 6:11:55 pm PST #21818 of 28370
Hey. New board.

You guys were right about Eleanor and Park. Good stuff.

Consuela - Jan 07, 2014 6:24:23 am PST #21819 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

This is a lovely piece of fiction. Archetypal and North American, all together. I do like Ursula Vernon's stuff, both the written & the art.

sumi - Jan 08, 2014 9:50:37 am PST #21820 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!

Finished my reread of Storm of Swords last night and I had kind of forgotten just how many weddings there are. . . mostly extremely fucked up weddings - but the book could have been called something like "A Wealth of Weddings". . . rather than ASoS.

Amy - Jan 08, 2014 2:44:39 pm PST #21821 of 28370
Because books.

I finished The Snow Child and, predictably, sobbed. That's one I'll go back to again and again, I think.

I was fascinated by the way she didn't punctuate dialogue in the scenes with Faina, as if they were communicating psychically or something, because it gave it more of that fairy tale quality. But even after the baby's born, and you have to assume she was real, she also wasn't quite fully human either .

Kat - Jan 08, 2014 6:30:35 pm PST #21822 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh, Amy, I'm so glad you liked it.

Can I also recommend another book? Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.

Pix - Jan 08, 2014 6:37:27 pm PST #21823 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.

Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.

This sounds EXACTLY like what I need right now.

Lately I’ve been chugging through the delightful Sebastian St Cyr Regency mysteries and enjoying the heck out of them.

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