We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!

Anya ,'Bring On The Night'


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 - Mar 09, 2018 4:46:20 am PST #24961 of 28481

yeah, I really enjoyed the concept, and the beginning of the book, but eventually I think I got to the part where the British girl's brother steals her skein via surgery?

And somehow I just couldn't get back to it, kept reading other stuff until it expired.


Jessica - Mar 09, 2018 5:02:54 am PST #24962 of 28481
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

17776

Easily one of the best things I read last year.


EpicTangent - Mar 09, 2018 10:02:13 am PST #24963 of 28481
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Just read The Girl with All the Gifts. Now I've gotta go back and see what you guys had to say when you all read it!

eta: Except my threadshearching skills are apparently lame and I am defeated in my search. Anybody more skilled than I want to point me towards a date or post number? Thanks ever so.


Burrell - Mar 09, 2018 11:33:26 am PST #24964 of 28481
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

17776 - whoa


EpicTangent - Mar 09, 2018 3:38:00 pm PST #24965 of 28481
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Okay, I just read/skimmed all of 2014 (it was nice to see ita and Ginger again), and never found a word about The Girl with All the Gifts. I would absolutely swear I remember seeing people talking about it here. Am I imagining it?

edit: friggin' autocorrect


-t - Mar 09, 2018 3:59:32 pm PST #24966 of 28481
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't remember hearing about it, but that doesn't mean much. The summary looks interesting.


Kat - Mar 09, 2018 4:25:08 pm PST #24967 of 28481
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

meara, that whole part was where I was like, this is horrible.


Dana - Mar 09, 2018 5:45:46 pm PST #24968 of 28481
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.


Kate P. - Mar 10, 2018 3:17:41 pm PST #24969 of 28481
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Yeah, the part where Roxy's dad transplants her skein into her brother was horrifying and made me so angry. Although at least the brother does get a satisfyingly awful comeuppance.


EpicTangent - Mar 11, 2018 9:11:03 pm PDT #24970 of 28481
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.

That must be it, thanks!