I'm way behind, but I recently finished Binti ... and really liked it.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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."
Toddson - Feb 15, 2017 9:47:32 am PST #24361 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
meara - Feb 15, 2017 10:25:41 am PST #24362 of 28260
I read that a couple weeks ago (I think it was on sale? Or I got it from the library? Why am I so tired this morning??). I also enjoyed it but wanted more info in that universe! Is there?
Toddson - Feb 15, 2017 10:50:41 am PST #24363 of 28260
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think there are more - I'll have to check.
amych - Feb 15, 2017 4:35:12 pm PST #24364 of 28260
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
There's a second Binti, fairly recently. Both are excellent.
By which I mean OMG GO READ NOW
hippocampus - Feb 15, 2017 4:43:25 pm PST #24365 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
there is a Binti 2 it is soooo goooood
eta. What Amych said
sumi - Feb 16, 2017 11:10:04 am PST #24366 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
Salmon Rushdie's next novel is about the last 8 years in US policies. It is called The Golden House.
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Consuela - Feb 22, 2017 6:58:56 am PST #24367 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Anyone who likes a good portal fantasy should run right out to get T. Kingfisher's Summer in Orcus, because it's lovely and thoughtful and creative and fun. Very much in the Narnia vein, but with modern psychological understanding and richer characterizations. $3 on kindle.
Calli - Feb 22, 2017 2:07:59 pm PST #24368 of 28260
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oh, yes, I adored that one, Consuela.
zuisa - Feb 24, 2017 4:46:43 am PST #24369 of 28260
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Anyone ever read any Guy Gavriel Kay?
I read his Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan last year and they were both so spectacular that I decided I needed to read his entire body of literature.
I just finished The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, and I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much I loved it. It was his first work, and while Tigana and Lions... are these grand sweeping epics, The Summer Tree (book one of the trilogy) literally opens with a bunch of Canadian college kids getting pulled through a portal - and for whatever reason I didn't think portal fiction was my thing. (Apparently it is).
Anyway, my heart is very full of joy and sadness after reading the whole trilogy, and I wanted to recommend any and all of his work to everyone, and know if anyone else has read any!!
-t - Feb 24, 2017 7:33:20 am PST #24370 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read some of those a long time ago but I don't really remember them. IIRC, I liked them but lost track of which titles I had read and which I hadn't (was picking things up pretty much at random at used book stores, mostly), which often stalls out my series reading.