One of the negative reviews for the Hamiltome I read was a complaint about the edges being ragged and not liking getting a damaged book. Feature it's a feature person.
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
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."
askye - Jun 24, 2016 5:06:31 am PDT #24080 of 28279
Thrive to spite them
Kat - Jun 24, 2016 10:27:29 am PDT #24081 of 28279
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy and aurelia, it's really enjoyable. I picked it up from the library because the there was a blurb by Deborah Harkness. Then when I was returning another book, there was another book with a Deborah Harkness blurb so I picked that one up too. I want Deborah Harkness to recommend books to me from now on.
Amy - Jun 24, 2016 3:04:08 pm PDT #24082 of 28279
Because books.
I still have to read her books, actually.
amych - Jun 24, 2016 3:07:13 pm PDT #24083 of 28279
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
One of the negative reviews for the Hamiltome I read was a complaint about the edges being ragged and not liking getting a damaged book. Feature it's a feature person.
When I worked in a bookstore, we used to get returns All. The. Time. from people bitching that books with deckled edges were "damaged".
I mean, whatever, if it's within the return period and you have the receipt. But "idiot" is in your file forever now.
Strix - Jun 25, 2016 6:41:08 am PDT #24084 of 28279
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
$315 credit from B&N!
I am crap about checking my email, so thanks for the alert!
Steph L. - Jun 25, 2016 6:43:08 am PDT #24085 of 28279
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Daaaaaaaaamn, woman. You win!
Strix - Jun 25, 2016 7:58:34 am PDT #24086 of 28279
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
All the books always in my purse! Truly, we live in a glorious age.
erikaj - Jun 25, 2016 3:04:25 pm PDT #24087 of 28279
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow.
Pix - Jun 26, 2016 3:50:06 am PDT #24088 of 28279
The status is NOT quo.
Strix and I have ALL TEH BOOKS. The credit is especially good because most of our Amazon dollars go to pet food.
Gris - Jun 26, 2016 11:36:26 am PDT #24089 of 28279
Hey. New board.
I am reading Discworld. I read the first witch book. It was great. I am now reading the first Death book. Thus far, I think I like it even more. So that's good.
I may just read them in the order I can get off of the hold lists at my library, which solves the reading order issue nicely.
I also just finished the audio book of Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. If you haven't heard of it, it's pretty crazy-meta; first, Rowell wrote a book called Fangirl about a girl who writes slash fanfiction. The universe that she writes fanfiction in was described as enough like Harry Potter to be evocative of it, but different enough to avoid any weird copyright issues. But then she decided she liked the fictional universe she had created enough to write an actual book in it. But not one of the books described in Fangirl, and not in the style of that fictional universe. But in that same universe. So...yeah. It's kind of like Rainbow Rowell wrote an A.U. last chapter fanfic for a series that doesn't actually exist except inside her head.
Also, it's really quite good. It reads a lot like some of the best Harry Potter fic I've read, which I guess makes sense! I got way more into it than I expected to and by the end liked it as much as anything I've read by her.