You’ve all inspired me to finally read the majority of the Discworld books. I’d read a few but never followed up on the rest. I’ve decided to start with Equal Rites and am loving it so far.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Pix - Oct 20, 2015 7:47:31 pm PDT #23634 of 28297
The status is NOT quo.
-t - Oct 21, 2015 2:58:16 am PDT #23635 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay!
Atropa - Oct 21, 2015 1:12:38 pm PDT #23636 of 28297
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm biases about Discworld reading order, because the Witches books are my favorites and I want EVERYONE TO READ THEM.
Still haven't read The Shepherd's Crown. We were traveling, so no books that will make me cry on trips, and then I came home to the tie-in novelization for Crimson Peak. Which is so full of delightfully purple, overwrought prose that Anne Rice is gnashing her fangs in jealousy.
Liese S. - Oct 22, 2015 6:13:59 am PDT #23637 of 28297
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I will say, there are bits where the posthumous editing is evident, it's not poorly done, it's just, his voice is so distinctive, you know? You can just tell when it's not him. It's mostly just in the bits where they're explaining the as previously seen parts, though, so you can just skim through.
Susan W. - Oct 23, 2015 6:48:38 pm PDT #23638 of 28297
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Has anyone else bought and read the eARC of Bujold's Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen yet? I just finished it earlier this evening.
-t - Nov 11, 2015 3:49:36 pm PST #23639 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't realize Manners & Mutiny was the last of the Finshing School series. It does wrap up rather nicely, and makes me want to read Soulless again.
-t - Nov 16, 2015 7:52:31 pm PST #23640 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have read Shepherd's Crown. Glad I did, and also glad I waited a bit. Even so, the About the Author being in past tense hit me harder than I would have thought likely. Anyway, it's quite a good Tiffany Aching story and makes me want to read all the witch books again.
Liese S. - Nov 17, 2015 2:40:27 pm PST #23641 of 28297
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww
Pix - Nov 17, 2015 2:58:15 pm PST #23642 of 28297
The status is NOT quo.
I’ve just started TSC. I’ve read all of the witch books in a row over the past couple of weeks and loved them like I haven’t loved anything in a really long time, and I’m more than a little sad to read this one.
Jesse - Nov 27, 2015 10:27:13 am PST #23643 of 28297
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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