What'd you all order a dead guy for?

Jayne ,'The Message'


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."


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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Amy - Jan 08, 2014 7:25:35 pm PST #21824 of 28370
Because books.

I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.


Pix - Jan 08, 2014 7:31:48 pm PST #21825 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.

Amy. Have you read Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily mystery series? The first is called And Only to Deceive. It took a bit for me to really get into, but they are richly researched, set in a variety of places (and quite vividly so), and feature an intelligent female protagonist. They're set in the late 19th century.


Connie Neil - Jan 08, 2014 7:34:14 pm PST #21826 of 28370
brillig

More books to make note of!


Amy - Jan 08, 2014 7:50:12 pm PST #21827 of 28370
Because books.

Oh! I HAVE that book, Pix! I forgot I had gotten it on my Kindle a while back.


Amy - Jan 08, 2014 7:56:53 pm PST #21828 of 28370
Because books.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder looks great! It's got sort of a Big Fish vibe.


megan walker - Jan 08, 2014 9:04:19 pm PST #21829 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Why are you people giving such good recs when I'm doing the TBR Triple Dog Dare and can't read anything new until April Fools? It's a conspiracy!


Calli - Jan 09, 2014 12:49:15 am PST #21830 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Consuela, thanks for the link! I love Vernon's gardening essays and Digger comic. It's great to read another kind of work by her.