I just finished this. I LOVE it!
GRIN
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
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."
hippocampus - Dec 11, 2016 11:42:13 am PST #24219 of 28332
not your mom's socks.
Kat - Dec 11, 2016 12:21:41 pm PST #24220 of 28332
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I really loved Jane Steele. Such fun.
I'm currently reading Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer and it's the first story in a Very Long Time that is giving me a deep Heathers feel. Anyone read it?
Amy - Dec 11, 2016 1:26:51 pm PST #24221 of 28332
Because books.
I tried Jane Steele and ... I couldn't get into it! I was disappointed in me.
I've been ostriching in books by Simone St. James, which are all paranormal romance mysteries set in the '20s and recommended by smonster. Delicious, surprisingly spooky, and perfect for my frame of mind right now.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2016 1:28:19 pm PST #24222 of 28332
brillig
I keep thinking I need to go through all the iterations of this thread and make a list of the books that have been recommended, along with their genre.
DebetEsse - Dec 11, 2016 8:50:45 pm PST #24223 of 28332
Woe to the fucking wicked.
If you do, could you do a google doc, so you can share? t bats eyelashes
Laura - Dec 12, 2016 2:13:18 am PST #24224 of 28332
Our wings are not tired.
I keep thinking I need to go through all the iterations of this thread and make a list of the books that have been recommended, along with their genre.
I've done that in the past, but if I saved it I don't know where.
I am re-reading between new reading. I devoured so many classics in my teens and I remember absolutely nothing about them. In truth I don't remember anything about something I read a couple years ago. Handy in many ways. So I started re-reading the Sherlock Holmes collection. I am fairly confident my 60 something self views the characters differently than my teen self.
-t - Dec 12, 2016 11:15:09 am PST #24225 of 28332
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Just finished Babylon's Ashes. I found it thematically eerily timely. Maybe it isn't eerie at all, that's just the zeitgeist, but I had to pause and not quite put it in the freezer but just kind of sit with it for a while a few times.
Toddson - Dec 12, 2016 11:59:16 am PST #24226 of 28332
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I recently finished this. I began reading it under the impression it was historical fiction about Dracula's daughter (no vampires, just political intrigue and the occasional assassination attempt) but it turns out the author wrote it as if the daughter grows up to be the Dracula we know and love. It was interesting ... not great, but how often do you read historical fiction set in the 15th Century Ottoman Empire?
Kate P. - Dec 13, 2016 4:52:01 pm PST #24227 of 28332
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I had a seventh-grade girl ask me today for what I'd recommend next since she just read and loved Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and figured I'd ask if anyone here has any suggestions. Anything come to mind? She's a pretty advanced reader and can obviously handle adult books, but I don't know that she's necessarily looking for mature content; she said what she liked best was the humor, the strong characterizations, and the adventure aspect.
DavidS - Dec 13, 2016 5:09:46 pm PST #24228 of 28332
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jennifer Crusie?