Yep, Jilli. You know you'll regret it id you don't.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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."
Strix - Sep 23, 2014 12:18:10 am PDT #22691 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2014 5:26:45 am PDT #22692 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is there an edition that includes Rice's flamewars with Amazon.com reviewers?
Strix - Sep 23, 2014 8:07:45 am PDT #22693 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
HA! Good one, Matt...
Atropa - Sep 23, 2014 9:13:11 am PDT #22694 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Matt, that would be an amazing edition.
You are all right, I would regret not getting it. Bookshop called, order placed, amazon order cancelled. Vampire fangirl status: ridiculous.
DebetEsse - Sep 23, 2014 10:23:11 am PDT #22695 of 28343
Woe to the fucking wicked.
You're supporting local businesses, clearly.
-t - Sep 23, 2014 10:54:59 am PDT #22696 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Local to somebody, anyway.
sj - Sep 23, 2014 5:31:35 pm PDT #22697 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just finished reading Landline by Rainbow Rowell. I know people here have liked her books. So, I was really hoping to enjoy it, but I just didn't. I thought it would be snarkier or funnier, but I mostly found it boring. I feel guilty because I was almost hoping for a (spoiler for the ending) tragic twist at the end, instead of the terribly predictable ending that the book had.
Consuela - Sep 23, 2014 5:36:08 pm PDT #22698 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Huh, sj.
I read her earlier romance a few weeks ago, the one about the IT guy reading everyone's email at a newspaper. I enjoyed it; it's not complicated or surprising, but there's some nice character bits in it. It was just... nice.
meara - Sep 23, 2014 5:51:07 pm PDT #22699 of 28343
Oh, dang--I have Landline waitin for me on my kindle. I also just read Attachments ( the email one) and enjoyed it. It wasn't big amazement but it was decent and sweet.
And I actually came in here to give a recommendation, which I'm somewhat surprised to do. Just read a series of three books (plus a novella) and inhaled them. So surprisingly good! I think the first was rec'd on Smart Bitches maybe? "The Year We Fell Down". It was billed New Adult, and much as I HAVE read many of those, they're mostly awful. Crack-tastic but awful. And these were actually good! The first is about a girl who is somewhat newly paraplegic and a freshman, and her hottie neighbor in the accessible dorm who is recovering from a broken leg. Which sounds weird, but was really good. The second book is slightly more "normal" new adult--the problems the characters have are slightly more what you'd usually see in those--but even though they are important issues, it's not constant and overly melodramatic. And the THIRD book shocked the heck out of me--it's gay dudes!! And again, pretty good! The novella was probably the least interesting of the four but it was still cute.
sj - Sep 23, 2014 8:01:19 pm PDT #22700 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have never read any of her other works, and it could just have been me. I might not have been in the right mood for a novel that was just sweet. I guess I like my sweet to be funnier and/or sexier. I kept expecting the characters to grow and make major life changes, but no one ever did.