Giles, help! He's going to scold me!

Buffy ,'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 - Dec 01, 2016 12:38:07 pm PST #24189 of 28265
"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 28265
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 28265
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 28265
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!


hippocampus - Dec 03, 2016 3:58:43 am PST #24193 of 28265
not your mom's socks.

I put up a post that (also contains links to what I did this year) has a lot of short stories I've loved, and novels too. [link]


Consuela - Dec 03, 2016 9:55:17 am PST #24194 of 28265
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Susan, yes, I enjoyed it. Don't know that it belonged on the Hugo list (or was that the Nebula?), but it was fun. There's a sequel coming out next year, I think.


Susan W. - Dec 03, 2016 1:19:57 pm PST #24195 of 28265
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Omg, Susan, thank you for mentioning Vorkosigan!

You're welcome! I love that series so much.

There's a sequel coming out next year, I think.

Cool! I definitely want to visit these characters again.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 03, 2016 5:59:08 pm PST #24196 of 28265
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

My godson (age 14) has professed an interest in politics. His mom is wondering if this book [link] is a good readable overview. Does anyone have any opinions. I feel that Naomui Wolf is hardly non-partisan, but we are (although the uncles are not) left leaning, so the point may be moot.


Consuela - Dec 04, 2016 6:49:06 pm PST #24197 of 28265
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So, has anyone read Crazy Rich Asians? I read it on the plane today, and ... I'm conflicted. It's funny and quick-witted but also kind of mean and full of stereotypes, just stereotypes I'm not familiar with. I dunno.


sj - Dec 07, 2016 12:17:01 pm PST #24198 of 28265
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm looking for recommendations for mystery novels preferably with female authors and the darker the better. Because that's all I seem to want to read right now.