Say! look at you! You look just like me! We're very pretty.

Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'


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 - 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.


Beverly - Jul 26, 2017 11:19:45 am PDT #24665 of 28222
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I read The Thief some years ago, and bought the following three books on the basis of my reaction--they got shelved and somehow I never got through them. I'm starting a re-read, knowing that when I finish the series there's a whole community of 'Thief' fanfic on AO3. Nothing like reading security.


Pix - Jul 26, 2017 12:28:45 pm PDT #24666 of 28222
The status is NOT quo.

I didn't love The Thief, but I loved the books that followed.