You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


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."


meara - Dec 23, 2017 6:59:20 am PST #24881 of 28212

Pix, it helps that I have no commute, don't grade papers like you have to, and also tend to read stuff that is not super meaty or challenging! (I mean, sometimes I do, but not super often relative to how many romances I read?)


Steph L. - Dec 23, 2017 7:17:12 am PST #24882 of 28212
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Man, I was impressed that I read 57 books so far (my goal was 50).


-t - Dec 23, 2017 7:41:23 am PST #24883 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I read one Vicky Bliss book a million years ago and took against her for some reason. I may or may not be able to set that aside, we'll see.


Beverly - Dec 24, 2017 12:26:31 am PST #24884 of 28212
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Prejudices against fictional characters are guiltless pleasures, -t. I may have been over-enamored because of one scene with a dog, and the setting of Garmisch-Partenkirken, with which I was familiar.


meara - Dec 24, 2017 6:03:30 am PST #24885 of 28212

One reason I love being late to the party on books: sometimes that means there are 12 in the series already and they are all available at the library!


sumi - Dec 28, 2017 7:06:41 am PST #24886 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!

I enjoy Jane Aiken Hodge's books but I love Joan Aiken's Alternative England bioks.


Tom Scola - Dec 29, 2017 10:58:31 am PST #24887 of 28212
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The alphabet ends at Y: [link]


Sheryl - Dec 29, 2017 11:36:01 am PST #24888 of 28212
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Bummer that there won't be a Z book, but it's probably for the better that the manuscript stays unfinished. After the mess that was "The Painted Queen", I'm a bit leery of bringing in a new author to finish a book.


flea - Dec 30, 2017 5:08:27 pm PST #24889 of 28212
information libertarian

Gah, I just finined a reread of The Devil In Music, the last of the Julian Kestrel books, and it was SO GOOD and it's a crying shame that Kate Ross died at 41 and we didn't get a long series of them. I think I first read them more than 15 years ago on recommendation from Suela, so I am thinking of her.


Jesse - Dec 30, 2017 5:20:37 pm PST #24890 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh man, I loved that book so much. I should re-read that.

Also, Kate Ross didn't seem quite so young when I read them the first time....