Found a Hamilton shoutout in a Tessa Dare romance. Delightful!
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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."
Amy - Mar 12, 2018 5:58:17 pm PDT #24972 of 28200
Because books.
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?"
Jesse - Mar 17, 2018 7:30:14 am PDT #24978 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, he says that about the main friend he's off in the tundra or whatever with.
Amy - Mar 17, 2018 7:34:34 am PDT #24979 of 28200
Because books.
Finally reading Cat Sebastien, and I LOVE HER.
hippocampus - Mar 21, 2018 6:29:18 am PDT #24980 of 28200
not your mom's socks.
Oh my gosh, Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough. (Trigger warnings all over the place) please let me write something this amazing at some point in my life.
meara - Mar 26, 2018 9:48:07 am PDT #24981 of 28200
Ahhhhhh why must alllll my library holds come in at once? I had like three books expire before I finished them and have a few more to go and just got emails that like four more things had come in!