I read Hild a couple of weeks ago. Despite the time period being right up my alley, I found it pleasant, but not compelling.
Well, then, this is a day I'll feel good to be me.
Mal ,'Trash'
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."
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
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.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 9:50:45 am PST #22118 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
It was fun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It had a great opening and finished strong, but I got a little bored by the quest at a certain point.
Kat - Mar 07, 2014 11:05:18 am PST #22119 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan, I am totally the opposite. I liked the quest and was bored with the bits about TechLove and coding. I do love that Robin Sloan, on his author's blurb, says that he splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet.
megan walker - Mar 07, 2014 11:36:21 am PST #22120 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's sort of what I meant in that I hated pretty much anything having to do with Google and just didn't like that it went in that direction.
Consuela - Mar 07, 2014 12:52:56 pm PST #22121 of 28348
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I got about 25% of the way into Mr. Penumbra and just put it down. It was a bit too much cool-dude-brogrammer and Manic Pixie Tech Girl for me. Maybe things got better?
I did like the mystery itself, though. If I find an electronic copy at the library I might skim it, but I was listening to it on audiobook, and disliking the narrator of an audiobook is a death knell.
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2014 2:59:15 pm PST #22122 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that's why I quit The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Also because I had no idea what the fuck was going on.