one of us, Meara.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
hippocampus - Apr 16, 2015 5:35:33 pm PDT #23213 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
Ginger - Apr 16, 2015 5:48:02 pm PDT #23214 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Station Eleven was wonderful. It gave me the odd sense of being in a dream, the kind of dream that's populated with people who could never be in the same place at the same time.
I was reading it while getting a transfusion, and when I got in the car to go home, a voice on the radio said "this flu is spreading much faster than expected." The story was about the dog flu in the Midwest, but it added to the feeling I was still in the dream.
Calli - Apr 17, 2015 3:42:42 am PDT #23215 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I read "The Song of Achilles" yesterday. It's a retelling of the Achilles/Patrocles story from the Trojan War. The author did nice things with Patrocles' story arc, giving him some nice growth and interest. And she made his final decisions understandable, when before they'd always made me go, "What are you doing in that armor? You have no business on a battlefield, boy, get back to your tent this instant!" So that's nice. And the prose is lovely. A friend who listened to it on Audible said it worked really well in that format, too.
meara - Apr 18, 2015 4:17:44 pm PDT #23216 of 28333
I've been keeping track, on DW, of the books I've read--116 as of today (plus a few half-finished). It's only the 108th day of the year. Yes, I am ridiculous. Yes, my Amazon bill is enormous and the Kindle is the best thing to happen so I'm not lugging bags of books around.
Steph L. - Apr 18, 2015 4:56:59 pm PDT #23217 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jeez, I've read 12 (I'm trying to read 4 a month). 116 is mind-blowing.
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2015 10:40:20 pm PDT #23218 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy crap. I've only read 31. 32 if you count Adventure Time, Vol. 6.
Sue - Apr 19, 2015 2:23:22 am PDT #23219 of 28333
hip deep in pie
I think I've read like, 6.
Amy - Apr 19, 2015 3:14:06 am PDT #23220 of 28333
Because books.
I am Sue. And two of those were rereads of old favorites.
Consuela - Apr 19, 2015 5:59:54 am PDT #23221 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
meara, you're a powerhouse.
I need to get as far through White Teeth as I can today and tomorrow, because book club is Tuesday. But I totally miscalculated this month, started reading it too late, and I'm spending a lot of my free time doing freelance work, so... not gonna happen. Bah.
The writing is very good, very vivid, but I admit I'm pretty confused as to where the story is going.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2015 6:34:30 am PDT #23222 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Holy crap. I've only read 31. 32 if you count Adventure Time, Vol. 6.
Oh, 4 of my 12 are TPBs (Ms. Marvel and 3 Hawkeye TPBs).