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.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
askye - Feb 07, 2017 2:58:48 pm PST #24317 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
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.
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2017 2:22:11 am PST #24323 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
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 Ship of Her Own Making
Interesting! though I'm not sold on that being the premise of the Valente books.
Kate P. - Feb 08, 2017 2:34:43 am PST #24324 of 28260
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Re: the Valente books, it's not the whole premise, but it's a big part of the first book in particular, and was one of the things that made me love that book so much.
hippocampus - Feb 08, 2017 2:53:32 am PST #24325 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
a big part of the first book in particular, and was one of the things that made me love that book so much.
Ah yes, absolutely this - got it (and coffee now too).
Just learned how to shut comments off on the YouTube. It has been a morning.
Strix - Feb 08, 2017 6:37:18 am PST #24326 of 28260
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've read it, and loved it. Another book on the twins is out this year.