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
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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 28222
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Kat - Jul 16, 2017 8:10:25 pm PDT #24656 of 28222
"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 28222
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 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Wow!!!
Upside of having generations of kids raised on Star Wars.
sumi - Jul 25, 2017 12:34:38 pm PDT #24659 of 28222
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 28222
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 28222
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 28222
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 28222
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 28222
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.