Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
I didn't love The Thief, but I loved the books that followed.
This was pretty much me; I liked it, but not enough that I would have sought the rest of the series out if it hadn't come so highly recommended. Then at the end of the third or fourth book, found myself thinking, "Holy Sh*t, that was good!"
I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks, and I ordered The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter on y'all's recommendation. The only downside is I have to wait until I'm actually on vacation to start reading it.
Well where did that rule come from?
I saw this and it struck me as something Jilli would enjoy - Strange Practice. What the author calls "sensible monsters."
One of the kids on Tumblr messaged me and recommended it!
I LOVE love love Megan Whalen Turner. And I even loved The Thief, in part because she is a huge Rosemary Sutcliff fangirl and there's a couple of Sutcliff tributes in the first book. It took me a long time to get over THE THING THAT HAPPENS in the second book, but the third book makes it obvious that Turner is also a Lymond fangirl, and I am all over that.
I do love the way that every book is really different than the others, even though they're all in a series. The POV and the voice and the way the story is told varies widely, which is just really cool.
In other book news, I am reading the final volume of Kate Elliott's Court of Fives trilogy, and it's really pretty great. The lead character is headstrong and privileged but learns over time, and it's a very good examination of colonialism and class oppression, which also has American Ninja Warrior and magic and revolution. I would recommend.
I love the Court of Fives series!
Well where did that rule come from?
If I read my travel books now I won't have anything for the airport.
That is very reasonable. You show remarkable restraint and deserve all the marshmallows.
One of the things I love about my e-reader is that I can carry it with me easily and I never have to worry about running out of books. Or, to prevent running out of books, carrying a lot of them with me.
I recently finished "Three Dark Crowns" - first of two books, YA fantasy, about three sisters (triplets), each with a specific "gift". At 16, they have to compete to become the one queen; the one who does becomes queen by killing off her sisters. Not exactly pleasant reading and I don't know if I'll go to the second book, but it was, um, different.
Has anyone else read The Hate U Give? I finished it a few days ago and was so impressed. The characters, in particular, are so richly and fully drawn. Lovers of YA novel and social justice, check it out!