Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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."
Oh, hey, thanks for reminding me I need to renew my library card. Maybe I'll take care of that this afternoon.
I might be persuaded to loan out my Skullduggery Pleasant books once I have finished this last one. Maybe. Probably they'll go to my sister's family first, but they are all pretty fast readers...
Kat, I read The Rook based off recommendations here (Pix, I think?). It is good stuff. Though I feel like I need to read it again, I feel like I missed stuff or like I really wanted to internalize it more, or something. Definitely one of the better hook-you-on-the-first-page concepts.
Gris, I feel more strongly about the employee abuse with Amazon than the author stuff. So I try to avoid them like I try to avoid WalMart (though with less success, I think). With Buffista or Buffista-adjacent authors, I try to go through my local independent book store. Otherwise I try to library unless I feel confident the book is something that I'm going to want to keep.
For professional reasons, I thank the major donor.
hee.
I am lazy and purchase from Amazon a lot, because we have a Prime membership. And most of the used books I'm buying these days are long out-of-print 70s gothic romances.
I'm adoring Abe Books for out of print books. That's how I found my raft of Elizabeth Enright books.
For Veronica Mars fans, one of today's Bookbub specials is Veronica Mars: An Original Mystery by Rob Thomas: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line for $1.99.
That was a fun book! I liked it more than I hoped I would.
Thanks for the tipoff, Epic.
So I'm reading The Magician's Land and enjoying it quite a bit.
It doesn't have the pacing issues of the first two books, and the event in The Magician King which (apparently) caused a lot of women to throw the book across the room gets addressed with a really kickass scene including the line (which I will spoiler font but only really matters if you've read the second book):
"If you see Julia, tell her I'm going fox hunting."
My favorite line (which is only meaningful within the context of this book, so not spoily) is:
"So anyway," Janet said, "that's how I got my new axes."
I was indeed the one who recommended The Rook. It was one of my absolute favorite reads last year!
In terms of SP, Tep, I am you when it comes to the WTF pain of that character’s death, and I am DEFINITELY not over the Tanith situation. I just put my pre-order in with Amazon UK for the final book as well and am beyond excited/dreading it.
I have tried to get into the Butcher books several times and can’t seem to get through the first one. I know they get a lot better, but boy is the first one slow reading for me.