No, I just meant light in terms of being able to concentrate on it while ltc says dada dada repeatedly. I think I have Boston Noir somewhere. I should look for it. Although I'm really not in the mood for a short story collection. More like a stand alone novella. With short stories I get stressed that I need to finish a story in one sitting. I know, I'm weird.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
sj - Apr 06, 2016 5:11:26 am PDT #23826 of 28290
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
lisah - Apr 06, 2016 5:24:21 am PDT #23827 of 28290
Punishingly Intricate
Although I'm really not in the mood for a short story collection. More like a stand alone novella. With short stories I get stressed that I need to finish a story in one sitting. I know, I'm weird.
Hah! I have this issue sometimes, too! I was going to suggest my friend Kathy's collection, Get a Grip:
Dark and funny and sad stuff.
Amy - Apr 06, 2016 5:33:45 am PDT #23828 of 28290
Because books.
sj, look through the Kindle Singles collection? I know there Amy Tan had one, and Jennifer Weiner. I think they're all still available.
sj - Apr 06, 2016 5:42:53 am PDT #23829 of 28290
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have a few of those on my kindle, I read a couple of the Weiner ones, which were good. Although I get annoyed when I get to the end and find out they're just a teaser for a novel.
lisah, heh. I love with buffistas there is always someone who understands your weird. That collection looks good. I grabbed it for when I'm in a different mood.
Calli - Apr 06, 2016 8:28:26 am PDT #23830 of 28290
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
sj, I quite liked T. Kingfisher's "The Raven and the Reindeer". [link] It's a retelling of The Snow Queen, with a lot of Finnish folk culture stuff. It's about 190 pages.
Kate P. - Apr 06, 2016 8:54:40 am PDT #23831 of 28290
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
The first two books I read after having Rose, when my concentration was totally shot, were Tina Fey's Bossypants and True Grit by Charles Portis. Loved them both!
Consuela - Apr 06, 2016 9:03:17 am PDT #23832 of 28290
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Everything by T. Kingfisher is great, as is everything under her other name, Ursula Vernon. I got my niece the first of the Hamster Princess books last week, and she's racing through it.
Dana - Apr 06, 2016 9:46:46 am PDT #23833 of 28290
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
A lot of Robin McKinley's stuff, especially the earlier stuff, is pretty light going, if you haven't read it before. (Except Deerskin.)
Connie Neil - Apr 07, 2016 7:35:30 am PDT #23834 of 28290
brillig
Clifford Simak's Goblin Reservation is on my BookBub mailing for $1.99! Now to figure out how to get personal backups so I'm not dependent on Amazon being willing to keep downloading it to me.
-t - Apr 10, 2016 4:20:54 pm PDT #23835 of 28290
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I have wrapped back around to Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen and that was absolutely worthwhile. I think I need to circle back once again and hit the Borders of Infinity (because the description in the timeline of the framing story is an itch in my brain even though I have read the individual novellas) and Barrayar (because I need recheck any references to Abelard, I'm sure I'm forgetting something and it is driving me up a wall).
I have really enjoyed immersing myself in this 'verse. One of the things I love are the casual references to Baba Yaga and magicians who keep their hearts in boxes and whatnot, but it wasn't until this read-through that I made a connection between Ivan-that-idiot and the Ivan the Idiot subgenre of fairy tales. More of a reference than a parallel, but a nice sharp click for the slavic brainstem. Barrayar is good for that, I find.
It's been interesting seeing what I remember. I read most of the stories as they came out, although there were one or two books that I know I decided not to read because of where my head was at the time, and a few more that I think I missed because I was confused by the publication of the omnibuses. There are also some that I am sure I read when they came out but remember only pieces of and/or remember wrong (interspersed with virtual word-forward recall some scenes). It's weird. And educational? Maybe. Miles has aged literarily as I have in reality in the same way that Harry Potter did more famously for younger folk. It makes for a ...thoughtful reread.