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!
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."
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty much anything by Megan Abbott. Her more recent stuff is v. good but I really wish she'd write more of her 1920's-40's noir novels.
sj, i recently read a collection called Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives that might be up your alley. All female authors IIRC. The forewords are not great, but the actual stories are good.
If you haven't read Tana French, that is my recommendation.