For anyone looking for decent escapist fantasy, I just finished the Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen and really enjoyed it. I'm in for the next book when it comes out. Not at all what I'd expected it to be.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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."
Pix - Dec 13, 2016 6:02:31 pm PST #24230 of 28261
The status is NOT quo.
Kat - Dec 13, 2016 6:16:00 pm PST #24231 of 28261
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The GroVant books -- Tim Sandlin.
Kate P. - Dec 13, 2016 6:43:44 pm PST #24232 of 28261
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Good suggestions, thanks! Kat, I'm not familiar with those books. What are they about?
Consuela - Dec 13, 2016 8:14:08 pm PST #24233 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just read the first of the Tearling books. I liked it, despite feeling that it's a bit rote: young woman raised in isolation becomes Queen of her fractious country the day she turns 19, and has to learn to govern despite the threat of revolt and invasion.
It has some predictable bits (like the very annoying way she falls for the very first interesting youngish-man she meets ) but I thought the world-building was interesting and the characters fairly engaging. And I don't entirely know where it's going to go.
Pix - Dec 13, 2016 8:27:31 pm PST #24234 of 28261
The status is NOT quo.
Yep, that was about my feeling as well, Consuela. I've been on nothing but fantasy, sci-fi and historical romance this year for pleasure reading (escapist much?), so it worked for me for the mood I was in.
Also, that post earlier led me to admit to myself that I hadn't updated my Goodreads since April. There went my last 90 minutes...
Kat - Dec 14, 2016 3:26:43 pm PST #24235 of 28261
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kate, Skipped Parts is the first and is about a 13 year old boy with a super dysfunctional mom who gets banished by grandpa to Wyoming. There he meets Maury and they experiment on figuring out what the skipped parts of the books are. Funny and sad and a little inappropriate. Set in the '60s.
Dana - Dec 16, 2016 10:59:00 am PST #24236 of 28261
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Open Road Media has made a ton of stuff free at Amazon. Runs for a few days, I think.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2016 8:33:28 pm PST #24237 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks, Dana! I just grabbed a ton of stuff.
msbelle - Dec 17, 2016 4:36:06 pm PST #24238 of 28261
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
TIME
sj - Dec 21, 2016 6:11:55 am PST #24239 of 28261
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Dana, I grabbed a bunch of books the other day. Thanks for the heads up!
I finished The Likeness by Tana French, and I like it quite a bit. But is the murderer ever going to actually go to jail in this series? I have the next in the series headed to me now.