The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I have read it. I also found it endearing. I have few thoughts beyond that.
Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
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."
Gris - Feb 05, 2014 8:06:06 am PST #22042 of 28352
Hey. New board.
Calli - Feb 05, 2014 8:35:27 am PST #22043 of 28352
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just finished The War for the Oaks , based on recommendations from here (I'm pretty sure).
I loved that book. I read it back in college and tried pimping it to all my friends. I ran with a fairly geek-tastic crowd (VP of the college SF and Fantasy club, bay-bee) and none of them got into it. Not even the person who gave me DeLint's Moonheart, which arguably was also an early urban fantasy. Pity, that.
Atropa - Feb 05, 2014 10:07:47 am PST #22044 of 28352
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, have you read "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown"? It's a vampire YA I kept thinking you would really enjoy. I did
I have not! I've been reading a lot of hilariously trashy "Gothic Satanic Romance" pulp from the 70s, because apparently my brain is craving fluff right now. But I will add it to the list of things I should read.
I just finished The War for the Oaks , based on recommendations from here (I'm pretty sure).
LOVE that book. I should add it to the rereading list.
Right now I'm reading Long Live The Queen by Kate Locke, the third book in her "Immortal Empire" set. The whole trilogy has been fun so far.
megan walker - Feb 05, 2014 3:48:16 pm PST #22045 of 28352
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I read this for one of my first book salons (theme=Books and the Bookish), along with The Reader (also WWII-themed, but certainly not endearing). Obviously, it was quite fun to be reading about a book salon for my book salon. I don't remember much about it beyond that it was a sweet book, with a sweet publication back story.
Strix - Feb 09, 2014 9:15:24 am PST #22046 of 28352
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I know I'm late to the party, but I finally read Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire last night.
Both were engrossing, but CNV was astoninshingly, utterly engrosseningly good.
Kate P. - Feb 09, 2014 9:21:49 am PST #22047 of 28352
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I just started Rose Under Fire! All the callbacks to CNV are making me tear up.
Consuela - Feb 09, 2014 9:37:37 am PST #22048 of 28352
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
CNV was astoninshingly, utterly engrosseningly good
Yeah to all of that. So good.
Strix - Feb 09, 2014 9:44:39 am PST #22049 of 28352
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My computer glitched at 2:30 am, RIGHT in the middle of...the scene towards the end of the book that makes you cry. And I flipped the fuck out, and had to continue reading in tiny 2.3 point font on my phone while the laptop rebooted (which takes 10 minutes, truly.)
le nubian - Feb 09, 2014 1:09:07 pm PST #22050 of 28352
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Aims,
I am not sure the book is worth processing. It is a shame b/c the 1st book had some ideas worth thinking through. All that gone.
Calli - Feb 11, 2014 5:19:30 am PST #22051 of 28352
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Classical poetry fans, there are apparently two more Sappho poems available for your enjoyment: [link]