Station Eleven is waiting for me at the library after months on hold.
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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."
Ginger - Apr 10, 2015 8:09:51 am PDT #23179 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
megan walker - Apr 10, 2015 8:22:51 am PDT #23180 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm reading Child 44 and I now have so much whiplash from the POV changing from paragraph to paragraph.
Huh. I don't remember that at all. But it might be because I get really tired of crime books that use POV simply as a means to hide things from the reader.
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2015 6:54:57 am PDT #23181 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just signed up as a supporting member of Worldcon so I can vote in the Hugos this year--which I'm mentioning in case others didn't realize it was an option. (I certainly didn't before this week.) It costs $40, but I decided that was a price I was happy to pay as a fan, a writer whose next project is likely to be fantasy, and a mother of an 11-year-old girl who's already ensconced in fandom and dreams of designing video games and/or creating her own comics and/or graphic novels someday.
Strix - Apr 11, 2015 10:31:04 am PDT #23182 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, anyone can vote in the Hugos if they pays their fees, and I think that's why the Sad Puppy hooraw is such a big deal. I think voting for the Nebulas is more restrictive...yeah, to vote you have to be an Active Member of SFWA, and for that, you have to be a published, for-pay writer. I could be an Affiliate Member, but I couldn't vote.
I'll probably become an Affiliate Member next year.
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2015 12:42:41 pm PDT #23183 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
It's definitely making me feel better about the Ritas. For all the debate and controversy over the categories and judging system that crops up in RWA almost annually, they're at least extremely difficult to game. (Any author with a qualifying novel or novella that year can enter, and in the first round each book is scored independently by 5 judges. I think good "typical" books tend to get awarded over more innovative, niche-y work, but I don't think that's unique to the contest or the genre, and I can't imagine anyone being able to push crap with a political agenda into the finals.)
Strix - Apr 11, 2015 2:29:07 pm PDT #23184 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Barb won a RITA!
Susan W. - Apr 11, 2015 3:01:34 pm PDT #23185 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I know, and that book is awesome! There are definitely plenty of exceptions to my good-but-typical comment--it's just a general trend I've seen, particularly in the romance subgenres I read most frequently.
Consuela - Apr 12, 2015 9:21:33 am PDT #23186 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sherwood Smith has a great essay here on the difference between Austen and Heyer: [link]
And I learned a new thing!
Consuela - Apr 12, 2015 9:22:50 am PDT #23187 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Also, if people like Regency romances, Sherwood's two latest novels, Rondo Allegro and Danse de la Folie are both very good, although I liked Rondo Allegro better.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 1:38:27 pm PDT #23188 of 28342
not your mom's socks.