I will second that recommendation! Picking it up tomorrow. The first one was really fun.
Also, Gone Girl keeps getting more fucked up. I'm very anxious/curious to see where it's going now.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 05, 2014 2:59:58 pm PST #22108 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Mar 05, 2014 6:48:52 pm PST #22109 of 28348
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hey, has anyone else read Hild yet? Because it's awesome.
meara - Mar 05, 2014 7:42:57 pm PST #22110 of 28348
I read the first chapter or two, but it's on my kindle for my vacation!
hippocampus - Mar 05, 2014 10:11:32 pm PST #22111 of 28348
not your mom's socks.
Consuela - yes! And then I gave several copies for the holidays.
megan walker - Mar 05, 2014 10:19:24 pm PST #22112 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So, despite having to wait an hour for Maggie Q and Mekhi Phifer to show up and talk for two minutes, I'm very glad I went to see Divergent. I thought it was quite entertaining.
Strix - Mar 06, 2014 2:14:36 am PST #22113 of 28348
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read Hild a couple of weeks ago. Despite the time period being right up my alley, I found it pleasant, but not compelling.
Consuela - Mar 06, 2014 4:52:09 am PST #22114 of 28348
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really really liked it. One thing was that it includes a particular plot element that I generally bounce off of hard, but by the time it happened Griffith had laid sufficient groundwork for me to be on board. Also, I see tragedy in the future regardless.
hippocampus - Mar 06, 2014 4:58:52 am PST #22115 of 28348
not your mom's socks.
I loved the weaving, the observations, the building of community. Loved Hild's voice from early to grown up. The fact that you got the political sweep from both a traditionally male side and a female side. And the language was just gorgeous.
Also, I see tragedy in the future regardless.
Yup. Though the endgame (St. Hilda of Whitby) is known. And she was amazing. So, I'm ok to read on if there's a sequel.
Kat - Mar 06, 2014 4:14:27 pm PST #22116 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
Ohmygod! Loved it.
WindSparrow - Mar 07, 2014 3:15:41 am PST #22117 of 28348
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So I'm reading one of my Bookbub deals by an author called Lillian Stewart Carl - The Secret Portrait. For the most part I like it. It's a mystery with a female protagonist who has transplanted herself from Texas to Scotland. Mostly the dialect in the dialogue is at least as skillful as I would be able to manage, or better. The one jarring note is the phrase "might could". It seems as though everyone in the book who was born in Scotland says "might could" while characters from England and Texas do not. I'd have thought that the Texan would use it, but no one else.