My pickiness is your gain! Also Borderlands's gain, since I'll be buying a new copy from them.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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 - May 02, 2014 7:30:44 am PDT #22327 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
meara - May 02, 2014 8:05:59 am PDT #22328 of 28344
I just finished Goblin Emperor last night! I liked it a lot, though it was a bit hard with all the crazy names--I'm not entirely sure I grasped who was who through most of it. But still enjoyed, and was sad to see she said there's no plan for a sequel, though she may write in the universe again sometime. I wanted to see the wedding and marriage! and stuff.
Steph L. - May 02, 2014 8:14:01 am PDT #22329 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm still on the Veronica Mars book. My reading has really slowed down lately, and I don't know why. Poot.
meara - May 02, 2014 8:24:56 am PDT #22330 of 28344
I didn't actually love the Veronica Mars book. It felt a little too...noir. But not in a "OMG, VM is not noir" way, but in a "this is so very thematic that I feel like someone wrote it and then threw in VM and a few quips" way. Which is silly because of who wrote it, but....meh. And it's not as though that'll stop me from reading more of them when they come out.
hippocampus - May 02, 2014 9:21:26 am PDT #22331 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Meara & Consuela - Yes I fell in love with the future empress and Maia's half-sister a LOT. I want books about them too
Julianna, I had a very similar reaction. Love that circus.
Amy - May 02, 2014 9:24:01 am PDT #22332 of 28344
Because books.
Crap, I still need to get the Veronica Mars book.
I just started Doctor Sleep (the sequel/companion to The Shining) and it's really good. After that I'll give Night Circus another try, though.
meara - May 02, 2014 10:07:38 am PDT #22333 of 28344
Totally agreed, Sox! So many possibilities!
Calli - May 02, 2014 11:09:09 am PDT #22334 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I bought Valour and Vanity, and then I realized I hadn't gotten book three yet. So now I have two of them to read. This is the exact opposite of a problem.
Similarly, I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Golem and the Jinni and everything is going haywire but I do understaaaaaaaaand.
I've seen that in the bookstore and it looked interesting.
Polter-Cow - May 02, 2014 11:21:11 am PDT #22335 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's so good! It's not what I expected. It's a fascinating portrayal of both main characters, but it's also got a host of supporting characters whose lives intersect, which I love.
Gris - May 02, 2014 12:05:11 pm PDT #22336 of 28344
Hey. New board.
My wife is teaching an honors sophomore - level world lit course next year. The course is heavy on existentialism - Kafka, Sartre, waiting for Godot, other darkish things. She is trying to find a book to pair with Einstein's Dreams (technically a US writer but set in a foreign country) for summer reading; something not - too - long and not too depressing (just out of kindness) but with some nature-of-god-time-.and - the - universe kind of themes. Ideally a foreign author but a foreign setting or fish out of water themes might make it qualify. Problems: no or extremely minimal undescribed sex and little to no cursing because we are in a private school inTN and it sucks sometimes. So all Marquez is out. Sadly. Also junot diaz. Ideas?