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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."
From what I've seen, the Sad Puppy slate did, which I find equally confusing.
The Sad Puppies didn't do a slate; they did an actual recommendation list culled from comments where anyone could recommend things.
This year confirms that it's really the Rabid Puppies who are fucking things up. Nothing made the ballot from the SP recs unless it was also on the RP slate (except for a couple things that clearly would have made it anyway based on their presence on other awards ballots).
For the record, I saw a lot of lobbying for Tingle in decidedly anti-Puppy spaces. Like, there have been a LOT of Tingle Hugo Threads on FFA. Once my Media Blackout is over, I'll have to check the reactions.
OMG, Sunil! Check out your quotes in here!
I recently read a novella by Mary Robinette Kowal, The Escapement of Blackledge which was written as kind of an Aprils Fool joke. It's entertaining, not very long, and contains some very amusing language.
OMG, Sunil! Check out your quotes in here!
Ha ha ha what the shit.
Oooh, Sunil!
The various Puppies sound pretty awful, for what that's worth.
Another book rec for book lovers: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.
That sounds lovely.
I'm finishing The Winter People right now. Anyone else read it?
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.
I'm seconding this. I read it a while back and thought it was so enjoyable.
I also read that a while back, and it was not what I thought it was going to be? I'm not sure what I thought it was going to be. But I did enjoy it.
Sox: Congratulations!!
Thanks so much, Sumi! (And thanks everyone for all the messages and boosts!)
Yay Sox! It will be waiting for me to read this weekend, after I finish my book club book...