I cried in the car this morning listening to Code Name Verity. Darn it.
I am maybe half way through? I don't have a ton of listening time, so I'm going slow, but boy howdy is it compelling.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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."
Gris - Sep 25, 2014 6:56:25 am PDT #22714 of 28343
Hey. New board.
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2014 7:59:58 am PDT #22715 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am somewhere in Part 5 and yeah, this is one of the most compelling narrative voices I've ever encountered, and the reader is amazing. God, when she sings, it's haunting.
I feel like I'm missing some of the details of the plot since my mind sometimes wanders while driving, but I am getting the general trajectory of things.
Strix - Sep 25, 2014 8:48:59 am PDT #22716 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
CNV is SO AMAZINGLY GOOD. It's one of those books you're jealous you didn't write.
sumi - Sep 25, 2014 11:05:18 am PDT #22717 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Consuela - Sep 25, 2014 11:06:35 am PDT #22718 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Indeed. It made me go read some of Wein's earlier work, but I didn't like it nearly as much.
I do want a yuletide crossover of CNV, Narnia, and Montmaray, starting all the awesome women fighting Nazis.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 7:28:30 am PDT #22719 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
OH MY GOD CODE NAME VERITY OH MY GOD.
I just went through so many fucking emotions on the drive to work today. First, she reveals her real name and FOR FUCK'S SAKE SHE WAS ANOTHER CHARACTER IN THE STORY ALL THIS TIME TOO. Second, the reader fucking brought me to tears with her ever-more-emotional repetition of "I have told the truth." Third, DRAT DOUBLE DRAT MADDIE'S FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE IS FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE MADDIE MADDIIIIIE GO FUCKING SAVE JULIE PLEASE.
Consuela - Sep 26, 2014 11:11:31 am PDT #22720 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, P-C.
t offers tissues
Also, I can't believe you didn't know the narrator was Queenie. Seriously?
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 11:33:35 am PDT #22721 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, of course I knew that. I already posted about that. But she's Queenie, and she's ALSO Eva, and then she's ALSO Stewart (and this time she even provided all the goddamn flashback lines to put those scenes in context).
Strix - Sep 26, 2014 5:06:28 pm PDT #22722 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm deriving great delight from this reaction. There's a lot of HSQ in this book!
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2014 8:56:24 pm PDT #22723 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It looks like I've got about a couple hours left, so I think I'll wait a week and save this whole last stretch for the drive from Chattanooga to Nashville (my rental car better have auxiliary input) rather than break it up over a week.
Ugh IT WAS MADDIE'S IDEA TO SEND IN THE REPORTER. MADDIE IS FUCKING SLEEPING IN THE ROOM OF JULIE'S TORTURER. GODFUCKINGDAMMIT.