Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair. Buffy: Just how I remember it.

'The Killer In 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."


Atropa - Nov 29, 2016 7:48:20 pm PST #24183 of 28266
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I just finished the new Anne Rice book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis.

Vampires. Aliens. Ghosts. And a solid third of the book taken up with meandering philosophical wankery. Oh, and an alien species that are giant birds.

It was something. What, I'm not entirely sure. But something. But not as fun as Prince Lestat was.


megan walker - Nov 30, 2016 7:13:06 am PST #24184 of 28266
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Answers to my "first lines" book challenge are up: [link]


hippocampus - Dec 01, 2016 3:53:58 am PST #24185 of 28266
not your mom's socks.

ILU SUPERMAN

edited because Clark(e) Kent


sj - Dec 01, 2016 4:56:04 am PST #24186 of 28266
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I finished reading The Jewel and Her Lapidary this morning, despite ltc waking up with only 5 pages to go. What a wonderful story! Are there any other stories planned for this world?


megan walker - Dec 01, 2016 7:57:49 am PST #24187 of 28266
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

ILU S

So much for my eyeglasses protecting my secret identity.


hippocampus - Dec 01, 2016 10:47:42 am PST #24188 of 28266
not your mom's socks.

Megan - fixed that for you.

SJ - yes! there's a short story at BCS at a very different time/place called The Topaz Marquis and there are two more novellas planned and three short stories. [link]


sj - Dec 01, 2016 12:38:07 pm PST #24189 of 28266
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

SJ - yes! there's a short story at BCS at a very different time/place called The Topaz Marquis and there are two more novellas planned and three short stories. [link]

Yay! I've finally started to make room in my day to read again. So, I need to track where I put your larger novels so I can read those as well.


aurelia - Dec 01, 2016 8:03:41 pm PST #24190 of 28266
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Have people read The Mirage by Matt Ruff? I keep hoping our current situation is due to an ill-considered wish.


Susan W. - Dec 02, 2016 3:50:59 pm PST #24191 of 28266
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Has anyone else read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers? It's a sort of found-family-in-SPACE story with good world-building and characterization that I'd recommend for fans of Firefly, the Vorkosigan saga, and maybe Deep Space 9 too.


lisah - Dec 02, 2016 7:06:14 pm PST #24192 of 28266
Punishingly Intricate

Omg, Susan, thank you for mentioning Vorkosigan! I was trying to remember that tonight and couldn't remember enough of the name (let alone the author or any of the books) to be able to google it!