Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


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."


askye - Aug 25, 2017 5:32:01 pm PDT #24746 of 28216
Thrive to spite them

I have 2 more books to read in the Harry Dresden series. I can't believe it I thought there were more.

I'm still iffy on them.


Steph L. - Aug 25, 2017 5:47:45 pm PDT #24747 of 28216
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think they have big flaws, but they're entertaining popcorn books for me.


askye - Aug 26, 2017 4:51:58 pm PDT #24748 of 28216
Thrive to spite them

I like them and I skim a by and then go re read. I feel that at times there is too much in the books but also too much time between the books so I get lost in the timeline and feel cheated a bit out of story.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 28, 2017 10:38:58 am PDT #24749 of 28216
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I pretty much love everything Seanan McGuire writes and consume it as soon as it's finished. For anyone starting the Toby Daye books, though, be aware that the writing gets a lot better after the first book. That may have been her first book, actually. I just know that I wasn't sold at first and fell in love with the series after I read 2 and 3.

Yeah, the first Toby book was a slog for me, mainly because it was also an info dump as I think I said at one point. But it WAS fun to re-read after reading the whole series. I love her "family" now and who ever said Connor was a drag was right on the money. Never got the appeal.


-t - Aug 29, 2017 9:21:19 am PDT #24750 of 28216
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I finally allowed myself to order Skullduggery: Resurrection from the UK. I live the way their email tells me my shipment has been dispatched. So much fancier than shipped.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 30, 2017 10:05:32 am PDT #24751 of 28216
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

BTW, for Seanan McGuire fans, but Sparrow Hill Road is basically a stealth InCryptid novel. It's more about supernatural than fantasy creatures but if the heroine isn't the Aunt Rose we've heard about but not met yet, I'll eat my hat.

No Aeslin mice so far, sadly.


-t - Aug 30, 2017 3:36:28 pm PDT #24752 of 28216
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I t heart Becky Chambers.

That is all.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 31, 2017 10:20:09 am PDT #24753 of 28216
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Actually, looking at the first Alex Price book briefly, where they mention Aunt Rose's last name, this is definitely her.


Jessica - Aug 31, 2017 11:07:05 am PDT #24754 of 28216
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I Becky Chambers.

Does she have a new book out??


-t - Aug 31, 2017 11:16:27 am PDT #24755 of 28216
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No, I just read A Closed and Common Orbit. So good!