I'm just trying to tell you that we have nothing in common besides both of us liking your penis.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


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."


Pix - Aug 27, 2014 7:09:13 pm PDT #22616 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.

I just read it, Connie! The Fool is a man, though he has masqueraded as a woman. It was a great read.

I adore Robin Hobb.


Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2014 7:22:48 pm PDT #22617 of 28343
brillig

Did she do anything with the less-than-subtle romantic tension that was in the end of the first books?


Gris - Aug 28, 2014 10:24:58 am PDT #22618 of 28343
Hey. New board.

I was able to get some more Skulduggery Pleasant ebooks (more) legally by tricking Kobobooks.ca into thinking I was Canadian and paying with Paypal. A pain, but at least the publishers and authors got their due.

And now I have reading to do!


Pix - Aug 28, 2014 5:14:21 pm PDT #22619 of 28343
The status is NOT quo.

Connie, she established that it was never sexual, but intimate on more of a soul level.

So yes and no. It’s really not about the two of them for most of the book.


erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 11:29:51 am PDT #22620 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!

I'm reading this book on women's history, which is very good so far, but there is also something sort of weird about the copy-editing: it never puts an e in taxes. Is that a thing somewhere and I didn't know?


Strix - Aug 29, 2014 11:48:03 am PDT #22621 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Uh...no. It's a wrong thing. WTF?


erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 7:14:06 pm PDT #22622 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!

I know! And given that it's a history of how government came to be, the issue comes up a lot.(I thought that was something UKers write like we do...of all the errors.Sometimes the editing is not that great when established books are kindle-ized, but that seems oddly specific. WTF, indeed!)


Typo Boy - Aug 29, 2014 8:58:51 pm PDT #22623 of 28343
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I suspect that you are right that it is part of Kindleization. Weirdly consistent character substitutions do happen.


hippocampus - Aug 30, 2014 3:54:08 pm PDT #22624 of 28343
not your mom's socks.

Consuela, it made me so happy just now to see you and Liz Bourke twittering. Just waned to say.


Consuela - Aug 30, 2014 3:59:03 pm PDT #22625 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Hah! I've been following her for a while, actually: I really like her posts over at Tor, especially when she was doing the massive rereads of women writers.

I respect that Judith Tarr is doing the reread of Melanie Rawn, but I rather wish someone would take on, say, some early Cherryh (The Morgaine Saga?) or LeGuin or Jonathan Strange. I loved Kate Nepveu's reread of LotR, and I'm kind of annoyed at all the acreage devoted to the books of the Malazan (forsooth).