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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."
Sophia, I've learned that if you're reading on a Kindle and put it into airplane mode, ebooks don't expire until you turn airplane mode back off. Of course you can't get any new books, but it's a good way to finish a book that is expiring. Not really viable for tablets and phones, alas.
I've totally done that with library books on my Kindle.
Jess, what about Jasper Fforde's middle grade series?
We listened to Wee Free Men last year - so great. Thanks guys, off to download!
Just finished Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee and liked it a lot. It doesn't dig too deeply into any of the characters - most of them are just sketched in - but the strength of the prose and the ideas really kept me reading. Bring on Book 2!
Has anyone else read the Sebastien St. Cyr series, by C.S. Harris? I'm on the second book and LOVING it. It's 1811 London, he's a war vet (and former spy) and a viscount and, of course, dashing and broodingly handsome. Highly recommended for anyone who needs a new historical mystery series.
I think I started the first St. Cyr book and never went back to it.
The first one started a little slow, but once I was in, I was really in. I just always love finding a new series with lots of books I can binge.
I vaguely remember getting annoyed with something in the St. Cyr series along about the 3rd book and giving them up. But it obviously wasn't a memorable something. Now that I'm back in the historical mystery mood, I've been meaning to go back and try them again.
In the same genre, I've read and enjoyed the first of the Tasha Alexander books, but my library doesn't seem to have any more via Overdrive so I haven't been able to continue it. They did have most of the Deanna Raybourn books, and I enjoyed them. At the moment I'm rereading Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series and having fun with Ramses' take on his parents.
Ooh, I quite liked the Lady emily Tasha Alexander books. I have to check if my library has the last couple that I haven't read.
Other random mystery series I've enjoyed lately include Victoria Thompsons Gaslight Mysteries, Sam Thomas' series also about a midwife (but in 1600s York), and the Lady darby series by Anna Lee Huber
I'm rereading Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series and having fun with Ramses' take on his parents.
I have to admit I generally stop reading that series after Ramses and Nefret resolve their issues.