Wow.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
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."
erikaj - Jun 25, 2016 3:04:25 pm PDT #24087 of 28269
Always Anti-fascist!
Pix - Jun 26, 2016 3:50:06 am PDT #24088 of 28269
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 28269
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.
Consuela - Jun 26, 2016 12:23:09 pm PDT #24090 of 28269
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gris, too funny -- I'm reading Carry On right now -- as in, just put it down to eat lunch and do laundry.
Consuela - Jun 26, 2016 12:24:36 pm PDT #24091 of 28269
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm about 2/3 of the way through. My theory is that the Insidious Humdrum is merely a manifestation of Simon's power, and that someone in Baz's family is responsible for the vampire attack that killed his mother.
I should know by the end of the day if I'm right...
Steph L. - Jun 26, 2016 4:30:35 pm PDT #24092 of 28269
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I didn't realize that she wrote a book in that universe! I need to get that from the library.
Consuela - Jun 27, 2016 11:55:42 am PDT #24093 of 28269
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, I was half right!
EpicTangent - Jul 05, 2016 7:48:23 am PDT #24094 of 28269
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Of interest to many here:
Ebook version of Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue, the first book in the Toby Daye series, is on special for $1.99.
ETA a comma.
Steph L. - Jul 25, 2016 8:00:14 am PDT #24095 of 28269
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Atropa - Jul 25, 2016 8:33:40 am PDT #24096 of 28269
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I can't even. I mean, I'll read it, of course I will, because I am a sad fangirl. But ... Atlantis? Oh Anne Rice, so wacky.