Secret message to Jesse:
My beard had been permanently depilated before I left Ollul
The Left Hand of Darkness pg 55
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
-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
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!
EpicTangent - Mar 26, 2018 10:04:42 am PDT #24982 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
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!
I just had 7 holds come in last week! And the book I started on is not grabbing me so I'm not getting off to a brisk start! They used to have a function on the website so you could put dates on your holds and space them out, but it doesn't seem to work anymore!
Which is to say, I feel your pain!
-t - Mar 26, 2018 10:24:30 am PDT #24983 of 28200
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm pretty sure my library has a feature where you can put your hold on hold, so to speak. Suspend the hold, I want to say, while you finish your present book or whatever but don't lose your place in line.
meara - Mar 26, 2018 10:31:27 am PDT #24984 of 28200
Yeah, I recently saw that—but I had these set to auto checkout, so I already have them! Oops.