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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."

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Consuela - Apr 28, 2015 5:18:27 pm PDT #23265 of 28333

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel on the plane, and it was marvelous. Really, just a great novel. Solid smooth beautiful writing, not too plot-heavy but not slow, interesting characters, and a narrative that weaves future and past and doom and rebirth and art and life. Comments on fame and destiny and family and found-family in wonderful ways.

I just really really liked it, and for a post-apocalyptic story with doomsday cults and superflus, it is remarkably optimistic.

-t - Apr 28, 2015 5:19:30 pm PDT #23266 of 28333

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You have a lot more grit than I do, Jessica.

Jessica - Apr 28, 2015 5:30:56 pm PDT #23267 of 28333

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You have a lot more grit than I do, Jessica.

Or less sense.

Amy - Apr 28, 2015 5:33:18 pm PDT #23268 of 28333

Because books.

So I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

I need to read this. It sounds fantastic.

Anne W. - Apr 28, 2015 5:38:10 pm PDT #23269 of 28333

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I just really really liked it, and for a post-apocalyptic story with doomsday cults and superflus, it is remarkably optimistic.

That is one of the things I loved about the book - the concept that there's more to living than merely surviving.

-t - Apr 28, 2015 6:01:43 pm PDT #23270 of 28333

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Or less sense.

That is hard to imagine in a general sense, but perhaps in this one particular very narrow arena.

I've finally finished reading Children of the Sky (having Mt Toberead half virtual does not seem to have noticeably helped me scale it any faster, although it is certainly easier to carry the virtual part around with me - that must help if only incrementally). Man, the Zones of Thought are such a clever idea, and the Tines are great aliens - familiar enough to be relatable but definitely not just funny-looking humans and well positioned to explore my favorite theme of identity. After I really didn't care for Rainbows End I'm relieved to have enjoyed this one so much.

Ginger - Apr 28, 2015 7:51:15 pm PDT #23271 of 28333

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Station Eleven is one of those books that make me want to grab strangers by the lapels and tell them to read it. I don't do that, mind you, but I want to.

Consuela - Apr 28, 2015 8:20:39 pm PDT #23272 of 28333

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

And now I'm reading Elizabeth Wein's new book, Black Dove, White Raven, which is set in Ethiopia on the eve of WWII. But it still involves women pilots.

Pix - Apr 28, 2015 9:04:37 pm PDT #23273 of 28333

The status is NOT quo.

I’ve now added Station Eleven to my goodreads “want to read” list. Thanks for the rec!

I’m currently reading The Snow Child based on megan walker’s glowing review, and I’m loving it.

meara - Apr 28, 2015 9:28:19 pm PDT #23274 of 28333

I didn't know she had a new one, Consuela, I'll have to look it up!

And will also take a look at/for Station Eleven.

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