You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.

Tracy ,'The Message'


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."


Laura - Oct 01, 2017 2:11:22 pm PDT #24786 of 28212
Our wings are not tired.

Score! Nice, Jilli.


aurelia - Oct 04, 2017 6:25:49 pm PDT #24787 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I feel like others may appreciate this, from my current read:

"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When your are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."


-t - Oct 05, 2017 8:03:26 am PDT #24788 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So true.

I like the idea that a lot of our cognition is turning things (events, sensory inputs, whatever) into stories. That that's kind of what being human is all about.


bennett - Oct 05, 2017 8:09:17 am PDT #24789 of 28212

Mary Stewart's mysteries are finally available in digital format. There is joy in the world.


Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2017 8:20:03 am PDT #24790 of 28212
brillig

Yes! Massive download in my future!

Gorgeous covers


bennett - Oct 05, 2017 9:06:09 am PDT #24791 of 28212

And they all seem to be on sale at the moment, so more Yay!


Amy - Oct 05, 2017 9:25:24 am PDT #24792 of 28212
Because books.

My mom had so many of those. I remember reading the titles on her bookshelf. Touch Not the Cat sounded fascinating to me.


Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2017 9:44:07 am PDT #24793 of 28212
brillig

I was afraid to re-read them, because I loved them as a kid, but they're still good, and I catch more of of the subplots now. I also highly recommend Jane Aiken Hodge. I like this genre of romantic thriller where the woman does a lot of self-rescuing but has a nice strong man around to do whatever hitting is necessary. (I never claimed to be above such things)


-t - Oct 05, 2017 10:13:00 am PDT #24794 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Is Jane Aiken Hodge related to Joan Aiken?


Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2017 10:18:39 am PDT #24795 of 28212
brillig

I don't think so, I've wondered that before.