A few of the things that are extra-funny are the very Seattle things. For instance, weather scientist Cliff Mass. Who is a real guy who really does have a blog that many of us follow (and used to be on the radio). I just re-read it and enjoyed many parts all over again, even if some of the main plot was not my favorite
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'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."
meara - Mar 29, 2016 7:47:59 pm PDT #23810 of 28293
Amy - Apr 01, 2016 5:19:03 pm PDT #23811 of 28293
Because books.
I read it last year and really thought it was great even if a bit random.
Yeah, I'm not sure Where'd You Go, Bernadette has an overall thesis statement (and it seems like it should?), but I really enjoyed the writing. Her cultural observations are amazingly precise.
I think a lot of the book wound up being about how easy it can be to get lost -- in the world, in the narrative you create for yourself, in anger or passion or love. But I also think there's a thread in there about the things we worship, and the ways we worship them -- lifestyles, people, religious icons -- that was unexpected and really fascinating.
I'm definitely going to look up her other book.
erikaj - Apr 01, 2016 8:25:12 pm PDT #23812 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought they both were really funny and the kinds of stuff reviewers write "keenly observed" about but not in a tiresome way.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2016 11:33:24 am PDT #23813 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My library website is down, so I'm just going to leave it here that Sharp Objects is the Gillian Flynn book I haven't read yet.
And in news that might be interested to people not-me, it is going to be on HBO: [link]
Kat - Apr 02, 2016 11:47:29 am PDT #23814 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was cleaning the house and found a piece of paper that had a list of 6 books on it (in my handwriting). I had been writing books down that I thought I might look into with no other reasons listed. So I ordered them from the library and I'm enjoying them.
One book, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is AWESOME. So meta and funny in an apocalpyse adjacent way. Anyone read it?
Amy - Apr 03, 2016 4:33:04 pm PDT #23815 of 28293
Because books.
I just put it on hold at the library. I've wanted to read him for a while -- he has a huge range. A Monster Calling is supposed to be fantastic.
hippocampus - Apr 05, 2016 10:45:09 am PDT #23816 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Jane Steel.
JANE STEEL by Lyndsay Faye.
JANE STEEL. is relevant to our interests. Let me turn to page three to show you why.
[ahem]
"Reader, I murdered him."
flea - Apr 05, 2016 10:53:42 am PDT #23817 of 28293
information libertarian
Penguinrandomhouse still makes me laugh like a loon.
sj - Apr 05, 2016 10:55:06 am PDT #23818 of 28293
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Sox, that's awesome.
EpicTangent - Apr 05, 2016 11:16:43 am PDT #23819 of 28293
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Huh, I feel like I read that same line in Jane Slayre. What are the odds?