Also, Peter Beagle's books, Evangeline Walton's books based on the Mabinogion, and CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books. Cherryh also wrote some fantasies based on Russian fairy tales, but I haven't read them.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
bennett - Apr 13, 2018 7:58:18 am PDT #25037 of 28200
Kat - Apr 13, 2018 8:20:53 am PDT #25038 of 28200
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Have any of you read In Other Lands yet?
meara - Apr 13, 2018 8:43:13 am PDT #25039 of 28200
I got about 80% of the way through and then my library book expired, Kat. I thought it was interesting but I obviously wasn't super into it if I didn't go "oh no only one day left quick must finish" but partly I think it just wasn't hitting the mood I was in.
sumi - Apr 14, 2018 5:48:49 am PDT #25040 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
Epic - where do I find the "What's the name of that book?" section on Goodreads?
EpicTangent - Apr 16, 2018 12:32:25 pm PDT #25041 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
There's a menu at the top called "Community", it gives you a dropdown for "Groups". It comes at the top of my Groups page, but I realized that's because I joined the Group. There is a search bar in Groups, I assume it will come up if you search for it.
Here's a link, assuming it will work for someone who's not signed in as me:
Jesse - Apr 17, 2018 7:24:40 am PDT #25042 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I finally read The Wedding Date yesterday, and it was so fun! Also fun to see Nanita in the acknowledgements. And I'm excited that Jasmine has another book coming out in the fall.
javachik - Apr 17, 2018 7:35:59 am PDT #25043 of 28200
Our wings are not tired.
That makes me so happy! And the second book will thrill all of you who, like me, LOATHE public wedding proposals. The "meet cute" is with a particularly likeable character from the first book who witnesses a Jumbotron proposal gone wrong and swoops in to help the young woman (who turned down the proposal) deal with leaving the packed stadium amidst the emotional aftermath!
Jesse - Apr 17, 2018 7:45:41 am PDT #25044 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just read that summary and am super happy!
meara - Apr 17, 2018 11:01:51 am PDT #25045 of 28200
Ooh, love that. Because for some people the performative love of big proposal is thrilling but for me it would be horrible. So I would love to read that
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2018 11:07:26 am PDT #25046 of 28200
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I loved The Wedding Date, so I'm excited that she has another one on the way!
Re: public proposals -- I think that if you don't know your partner well enough to know if they like public proposals (and that includes just assuming that they do like them, even though you've never checked*), then you have no business proposing, in public OR private. But if you know your partner thinks a public proposal would be awesome, then go for it. (I cringe at them, though.)
*(This also includes surprise parties. Tim knows that a world of hurt awaits him if he ever tries that bullshit on me. And I had to sit through a surprise party that a friend threw for her boyfriend, who has crippling social anxiety as bad as mine. I emailed friend and asked if her boyfriend likes surprise parties, and she said "I don't know! I've never thrown one for him before!" When I mentioned his anxiety, she said "Oh, I'm his Safe Person; he'll be fine!"
SPOILER: He was not fine. I felt SO bad for him the entire night. For the first hour or so he had this vacant thousand-yard stare and was all sweaty, and then he got very, VERY drunk on tequila shots. Poor noodle.)