(loves you guys so hard. I really needed to read that today. Thank you
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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 - Feb 06, 2017 1:53:27 pm PST #24313 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
Steph L. - Feb 06, 2017 1:56:13 pm PST #24314 of 28260
I look more rad than Lutheranism
(I am literally editing something about volume of the hippocampus right now, and it makes me keep giggling.)
sumi - Feb 07, 2017 10:20:40 am PST #24315 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
EpicTangent - Feb 07, 2017 2:36:10 pm PST #24316 of 28260
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Just finished Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway. I checked back in the thread, but the only mention I saw of it was when Steph's library hold came in. Anybody else read it?
askye - Feb 07, 2017 2:58:48 pm PST #24317 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
I haven't but I checked and my library has it! I will go pick it up tomorrow I think. My library doesn't have a great selection of current sci fi and fantasy.
EpicTangent - Feb 07, 2017 3:11:21 pm PST #24318 of 28260
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
It's really excellent. I can't articulate what I want to say about it, but it was really...touching...or something. Anyway, I loved it.
Calli - Feb 07, 2017 3:14:39 pm PST #24319 of 28260
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway
I love it! I recommended it to my book group, and most of them loved it, too. At least one of them has started reading McGuire's other works because of it.
Susan W. - Feb 07, 2017 3:41:09 pm PST #24320 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I read it several months back and loved it.
DebetEsse - Feb 07, 2017 5:04:18 pm PST #24321 of 28260
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm working my way through Toby Daye, and I'll probably pick it up after that.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2017 7:45:34 pm PST #24322 of 28260
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just finished Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway. I checked back in the thread, but the only mention I saw of it was when Steph's library hold came in. Anybody else read it?
I haven't read it but I've been thinking about it after reading its premise, because that same premise is a big part of several fantasy books of recent vintage. Like, The Magicians, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Boat of Her Own Making. Even in the movie Return to Oz, there's that damage of returning from the magical experience and being disbelieved. Made me also think of Jonathan Carroll's Land of Laughs.
Something meta that a generation of writers have taken over from their experience as readers. Fanficcy in a way - wanting to comment on the text, address it. Midrash, as Amych and I once discussed that concept.