I was.
I yelled, "WHAT?!" and my eyes went wide and I gripped the steering wheel and my eyes started to water and I tried not to burst into tears and I was just fucking dead inside.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'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."
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2014 2:34:35 pm PDT #22746 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ginger - Oct 05, 2014 2:55:39 pm PDT #22747 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I wonder how many plot twist accidents there have been.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2014 2:56:40 pm PDT #22748 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was just so fucking abrupt and brutal like HOLD ON WAIT DID SHE JUST WAIT WHAT WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST YOU CAN'T WAIT BUT YOU WAIT WHAT YOU WAIT GO BACK THERE'S STILL BOOK LEFT WAIT WHY WHAT GODDAMMIT.
Amy - Oct 05, 2014 3:50:54 pm PDT #22749 of 28343
Because books.
Don't hold back, P-C! Tell us how you really feel!
Strix - Oct 05, 2014 5:42:20 pm PDT #22750 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've been waiting for this day. In a kind of S&M literary way.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2014 6:09:40 pm PDT #22751 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And then I kept waiting for it to be revealed that she wasn't really dead because HELLO UNRELIABLE NARRATORS except Maddie was way more reliable so goddammit.
I really really loved the breaking of my brain as I tried to figure out whether I'd missed any hints that Anna Engel was NOT evil and was in fact working with Julie the whole time but no because HELLO UNRELIABLE NARRATOR.
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2014 10:34:41 am PDT #22752 of 28343
brillig
I've been reading several mysteries that I'm finding via BookBub. Being as I am cheap when it comes to ebooks, I've been getting the freebies. Some of these, though, are part of multi-book series, which may not mean much in these days of small e-publishers.
Is 1st-person POV the usual one for mysteries anymore? It's very tricky to pull off. I'm seeing a disturbing trend in 1st person, female protagonist mysteries where her love life takes up nearly as much space as the mystery. I want to read a mystery with an engaging investigator. I don't want her babbling over drinks with her best friend over her latest guy and getting interrupted every now and then by the need to investigate why that body showed up. I want a fully realized character, and characters have love lives, generally. Maybe my approach to relationships is different from most women--and I've had this approach for years, it's not a new development.
And maybe it's age. The characters have boyfriends but the relationships are new. It's been decades since I could relate to that sort of world. I'd like to find some where the character has a stable relationship that she trusts, but then some people might feel the book loses a lot of the drama. I lost my taste for soap opera-esque "does he love me, does he not" drama after college.
I want a mystery, not Sex in the City
Toddson - Oct 06, 2014 11:28:39 am PDT #22753 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I got a .99 ebook about a werewolf hero and one woman posed a question to another (the heroine), who would be in close contact with the werewolf hero: what do you do when he starts humping your leg?
(I figured it should go here or in Bitches ... and it IS about a book)
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2014 12:36:46 pm PDT #22754 of 28343
brillig
One of my freebie mysteries is shaping up well. 1st POV, male viewpoint character, he's a local pastor who was almost a cop and is chaplain to the local police. The basic info on the murder is presented in a conversation with the local police chief full of snark and intelligence. So far so good.
Superior Justice by Tom Hilpert, first in a series.
Set in Minnesota
Cass - Oct 06, 2014 2:24:01 pm PDT #22755 of 28343
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
what do you do when he starts humping your leg?
A firm no and spritz him with the water bottle.