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.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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."
Consuela - Feb 22, 2017 6:58:56 am PST #24367 of 28260
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Jessica - Feb 24, 2017 8:22:38 am PST #24371 of 28260
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read the Fionovar Tapestry ages ago and loved it, but never got into the rest of his work for some reason.
Calli - Feb 24, 2017 8:35:57 am PST #24372 of 28260
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember crying over parts of The Summer Tree.
dcp - Feb 24, 2017 9:06:42 am PST #24373 of 28260
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Yeah, good stuff.
It was The Lions of Al-Rassan that made me cry.
zuisa - Feb 24, 2017 9:29:39 am PST #24374 of 28260
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh man, the battle at the end of Lions.. between Rodrigo Belmonte and Ammar ibn Khairan made me so upset I didn't want to read to see the conclusion.
Such a sad and beautiful story.
msbelle - Feb 25, 2017 10:16:58 am PST #24375 of 28260
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
for anyone doing or considering joining the loose goodreads bookclub thing I started, I have opened discussion for March's book.
Rayne - Feb 25, 2017 4:18:21 pm PST #24376 of 28260
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Oh wow, I totally missed this! Congratulations Fran for the Nebula nomination for The Jewel and Her Lapidary!