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.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
Susan W. - Dec 03, 2016 1:19:57 pm PST #24195 of 28333
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Sophia Brooks - Dec 03, 2016 5:59:08 pm PST #24196 of 28333
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 28333
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 28333
"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.
Strix - Dec 07, 2016 1:36:22 pm PST #24199 of 28333
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
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.
-t - Dec 07, 2016 1:45:03 pm PST #24200 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 2:20:32 pm PST #24201 of 28333
hip deep in pie
If you haven't read Tana French, that is my recommendation.
lisah - Dec 07, 2016 2:25:07 pm PST #24202 of 28333
Punishingly Intricate
Seconding Tana French heartily! And Laura Lippman is pretty great, too
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:35:04 pm PST #24203 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm reading In the Woods right now. I kind of got bored there for a while, but it's picking up again. I just got to the part where the narrator spent the night in the woods trying to remember what happened when he was a kid.
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:40:58 pm PST #24204 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t, I grabbed the anthology on the kindle and I'll look into Megan Abbott, Strix