We talked about the movie version of The Girl With All the Gifts in Movies.
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
Dana - Mar 09, 2018 5:45:46 pm PST #24968 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kate P. - Mar 10, 2018 3:17:41 pm PST #24969 of 28200
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 28200
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!
Consuela - Mar 12, 2018 5:40:28 pm PDT #24971 of 28200
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OK, so this 17776 thing is kinda cool. (Just started it.)
Amy - Mar 12, 2018 5:58:17 pm PDT #24972 of 28200
Because books.
Found a Hamilton shoutout in a Tessa Dare romance. Delightful!
Dana - Mar 15, 2018 10:29:40 am PDT #24973 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
For anyone who likes Ellis Peters, the books in her George Felse series are on sale for $1.99 to $2.99 at Amazon. At least, I assume that's a sale price. Regardless, they're well worth it.
-t - Mar 15, 2018 12:54:06 pm PDT #24974 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks! I think I finally read all of the Cadfael books, did not know about these.
-t - Mar 17, 2018 5:38:09 am PDT #24975 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Secret message to Jesse:
My beard had been permanently depilated before I left Ollul
The Left Hand of Darkness pg 55
Jesse - Mar 17, 2018 5:45:05 am PDT #24976 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
THANK YOU!
Relatedly, Slate had a podcast recently about that book, and I was thrilled that the first thing Charlie Jane Anders said was how much the main character sucks.
-t - Mar 17, 2018 6:16:32 am PDT #24977 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
He's a 23 year old bundle of toxic masculinity trying really hard to convince himself he's objective. He has that one moment towards the end (which I cannot find now to quote exactly or to see who he was talking about) where he says something like "I didn't see a man, I didn't see a woman, I saw a person" and the only thing I can think is "Finally! Was that so hard?"