Willow ,'First Date'
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."
Indexing Season 2 Pre Ordered!! Ready and waiting for it.
I liked Pocket Apocolaypse and I'd kind like to see how Raina and Gabby work on changing the Thirty Sixers but I thought it could have had more story. But then I was skimming for the most part.
I really need to give the October Daye stories another try.
I've been reading Seanan McGuire's Velveteen e-books (compilations of short stories). They're entertaining and, since each is very short, good to read on the bus.
If you don't know them, the premise is that there are superheroes (and villains) and The Super Patriots Inc. essentially buys children from their parents, trains them, markets them, and has them out fighting evil. Velveteen (whose power is animating toys ... which is deadlier than you'd think) leaves them when she turns 18. And the stories continue from there.
Quote from what I was reading earlier, "How anyone could look perky in a corset before noon" (which seemed especially Buffista-relevant).
Velveteen (whose power is animating toys ... which is deadlier than you'd think) leaves them when she turns 18. And the stories continue from there.
Interesting. Kind of reminds me of Mur Lafferty's Playing for Keeps. The main character has a superpower that prevents anyone from taking anything that belongs to her--if they try, they get frozen in place until she releases them. This power is considered too passive and lame for her to be admitted to the organization of superheroes. But as the story progresses it turns out there's more to her powers than she knew.
I love the Velveteen books and think way more people should read them. Great superhero fiction.
Playing for Keeps is also great superhero fiction and more people should read it!
Just finished Gillian Flynn's first novel, Sharp Objects, for bookclub. We're doing horror/gothic lit this year and, sheeesh, this fit the bill. Very well written and dark as hell. She doesn't pull any punches that's for sure. I couldn't put it down but I'm not sure I want to read anything else of her's.
I read that a long time ago and, yeah, it's nasty (in a good way). I loved the hell out of Gone Girl, and now I want to read Dark Places.
Dark Places was my least favorite, but it was still pretty good. I liked most of the elements of it, I just thought there were too many for one novel. Sharp Objects I loved maybe most? It's hard to call - I like SO and GG both a lot for for different reasons.
I have to remember that I haven't read Sharp Objects, because I want to! I read Dark Places right after Gone Girl and then had to take a break, and then I keep forgetting which of hers I've missed.
Sharp Objects was my favorite, but I loved Dark Places.
She kind of reminds me of Laura Lippman, not really style-wise, but because she's so clearly written a woman's take on the suspense novel.