Nancy Pearl's summer reading list, via NPR: [link]
love the sound of the first book, a vintage Hollywood mystery with Edith Head (!) as one of the detectives.
I read it - really good
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
beth b - Jul 16, 2017 7:57:28 pm PDT #24655 of 28756
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Kat - Jul 16, 2017 8:10:25 pm PDT #24656 of 28756
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm reading it right now!
Consuela - Jul 21, 2017 5:50:22 pm PDT #24657 of 28756
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So among the many things revealed at SDCC today is the fact that ELIZABETH FREAKING WEIN is writing a SW book: [link]
Looks like a comic, or maybe an illustrated book. BUT! Holy cow.
Other writers also writing new SW material: KEN LIU. MIRA GRANT. SALADIN AHMED. DELILAH DAWSON.
I am agog.
sumi - Jul 22, 2017 10:58:38 am PDT #24658 of 28756
Art Crawl!!!
Wow!!!
Upside of having generations of kids raised on Star Wars.
sumi - Jul 25, 2017 12:34:38 pm PDT #24659 of 28756
Art Crawl!!!
Just finished Lisa See's I The Teagirl of Hummingbird Lane.
It is really good.
Toddson - Jul 26, 2017 7:00:07 am PDT #24660 of 28756
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw this and it struck me as something Jilli would enjoy - Strange Practice. What the author calls "sensible monsters."
Amy - Jul 26, 2017 7:41:36 am PDT #24661 of 28756
Because books.
I just saw that mentioned on Twitter, and it does look good, Todd!
I'm reading this now -- [link] -- and I love it completely. Exactly what's promised -- a historical YA romp through Europe.
-t - Jul 26, 2017 8:15:20 am PDT #24662 of 28756
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Epic and Consuela - thanks for reccing The Thief etc. earlier in the year. I probably would not have started reading the series on my own as I kept getting it confused with The Queen's Poisoner and the descriptions I read were not all that intriguing, but I am so glad I did! What a well and deeply thought out world!
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2017 9:55:51 am PDT #24663 of 28756
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
the descriptions I read were not all that intriguing
Same here, if my friend hadn't recced it, I doubt I would have read the first book or pursued the series.
How far in are you? The books just keep getting better!
-t - Jul 26, 2017 11:02:15 am PDT #24664 of 28756
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just finished Conspiracy of Kings and decided to go back and reread The Thief, I might just read all of them again before getting the 5th one.