Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
The occasional musical score is fun, though.
Oh that's interesting! How was writers with drinks, PC?
Atwood other than Handmaid's Tale
I really liked the Blind Assassin and Alias Grace. I also liked Oryx and Crake and the Handmaid's Tale, but for different reasons.
Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride -- these are my favorite Atwoods. I have still to read MaddAdam.
I also could not abide Oryx and Crake.
I did not dislike it so much to say it twice.
I love Atwood's really old stuff, like Surfacing and Bluebeard's Egg, and then The Handmaid's Tale, and Cat's Eye. I never read anything past that, although I've had The Robber Bride on my shelf for years.
I am Amy. I just kind of fell off of reading Atwood for a while, though if keep meaning to catch up on her more recent stuff. So many books, so little time.
So many books, so little time.
This.
Writers with Drinks was great, Sox! Nicola Griffith should do audiobooks; I love her voice. Sofia Samatar read from a new story, and Ken Liu read a new story. The local artists were really funny, and Charlie Jane was a hoot as always.
And yeah, the Coldest Girl audiobook occasionally has music at really tense moments, which is cool.
I would add that I love Ian Banks, but don't think his stuff was written to be read aloud. His prose is very much about conveying images and ideas without much attention paid to the sound of words. It does not have the touch or poetry or music a lot of good prose has. It is (IMO) great stuff nonetheless - but (again IMO) can only be appreciated on the page.
I really loved Cat's Eye, FTR. I didn't get into MadAdam at all. But I still liked After the Flood for some weird reason.