I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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 - Apr 22, 2014 10:07:35 am PDT #22280 of 28344
Because books.

I think the gothics and the medical romances might have been the first ones to get really sexy, but I could be wrong.

I wish I had some of the books I had edited -- they'd make such great, fun one-evening reads. And a lot of those authors either stopped writing or turned to mystery and other things, because they very specifically didn't want to write graphic sex.


EpicTangent - Apr 22, 2014 10:10:22 am PDT #22281 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

A free Kindle ebook today that seems to be based on C,F,M - gone Terribly Real...

[link]

I "bought" it pretty much just based off of that.


Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 10:10:54 am PDT #22282 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Speaking of Regency romance, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass and really enjoyed it! The first book was a little too romance-focused for me (it was basically Pride and Prejudice, after all), but I like that the rest of the series seems to be focused on what happens after the traditional Happily Ever After: a married couple has adventures! With magic! And, on-topic, the sex scenes are not steamy but cheekily implied.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 22, 2014 10:12:43 am PDT #22283 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

It seemed like I read a lot of 70's/ 80's romance novels where the main woman had more than one husband/lover, if not more than on "true love". Skye O'Malley comes to mind.


Steph L. - Apr 22, 2014 10:30:10 am PDT #22284 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Speaking of Regency romance, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass and really enjoyed it! The first book was a little too romance-focused for me (it was basically Pride and Prejudice, after all),

I'm reading the first one right now! They just went to the ball.

but I like that the rest of the series seems to be focused on what happens after the traditional Happily Ever After:

Spoiler! (No, I kid; it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be. The fun is in seeing how it plays out.) (I assume all-naked, all-gay, right?)


Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 10:32:51 am PDT #22285 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I am really looking forward to the fourth book, which she describes as "Ocean's Eleven in Venice." THERE IS INDEED A GONDOLA CHASE.

Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.


Polgara - Apr 22, 2014 10:47:39 am PDT #22286 of 28344
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.

Wait, what? For realz?? I totally have to try this series....


Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 11:04:07 am PDT #22287 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

They're not overt, but any time a doctor appears in the story, he is dressed like one of the Doctors. Eleven is in the fourth book, bow tie and all.


meara - Apr 22, 2014 12:41:39 pm PDT #22288 of 28344

I did not catch the doctor cameos! Possibly because I have never watched doctor who. But I am exited to hear about a 4 th book.


Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2014 12:51:24 pm PDT #22289 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It comes out next week! And then there's one more book left in this first cycle. She's doing three five-book cycles at different points in their lives (middle age and elderly, I think). That's the plan, anyway.