I have the third one in my TBR pile!
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Jessica - Jun 25, 2017 10:00:44 am PDT #24632 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
-t - Jun 25, 2017 10:34:18 am PDT #24633 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Just finished it. Terrific!.
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:31:06 pm PDT #24634 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh, I will add The Alchemist's Daughter to my Eventually To Be Read list!
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:35:25 pm PDT #24635 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's not often that fiction makes me feel like I need a hot shower to scrub away the grime from reading it, but a friend of mine gave me a stack of 90s - 2000s small press horror and alterative fiction magazines for the next run of Eldergoth Surprise Boxes, and eeeugh. Half of them were full of bad "edgy" horror porn; the worst sort of examples of splatterpunk and writing to be shocking.
I know he bought them as research into markets that were buying short horror fiction, but they're just ... gross
hippocampus - Jun 26, 2017 3:53:49 am PDT #24636 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
People, The Strenge Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is awesome, and you should all go read it. Jilli, I think it's especially up your alley.
I blurbed The Alchemist's Daughter! It's so so good you guys. Seconding everything Pix said
Also (coming soon - very much of interest here) VIvian Shaw's Strange Practice - Dr. Greta vanHelsing, physician to monsters [link]
(also news of big old ebook sale for yours truly up in News)
sumi - Jun 26, 2017 8:25:50 am PDT #24637 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
I am reading Strange Practice from netgalley and it is so much fun. Coming out in July I think.
sumi - Jun 27, 2017 9:11:40 am PDT #24638 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
Went to the library: they had the sequel to The Rook. The Rook was shelved in the science fiction/fantasy section. Stiletto was shelved in regular fiction. What is up with that?
-t - Jun 27, 2017 5:09:14 pm PDT #24639 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is weird, sumi, but I've noticed that even when, say, buying e-books that books in a series will get categorized differently. I suppose it's someone different making the decision each time?
Up to book 17 of the Foreigner series (although I think she calls it something else, First Contact?) and I'm pleased with my decision to catch up on it. Weird to read after the Three Body Problem, I keep thinking about cosmological sociology, but the Trisolarans initiated contact with the Solar System rather than just "cleansing" them, too. So. I don't know what I conclude from that, but I continue to enjoy Cherryh's way with alien cultures.
sumi - Jun 28, 2017 9:53:32 am PDT #24640 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
Meanwhile - an important fact I have learned from Stiletto : the Dutch put chocolate sprinkles on their toast.
Toddson - Jun 28, 2017 12:24:39 pm PDT #24641 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
(packs bags for trip to Holland)
In strange shelving stories, when I was a kid I found "Animal Farm" had originally been classified as a children's book ... someone explained to the librarians and it was reclassified as a book for grown-ups, but the original stamp was visible.