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.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Jesse - Apr 17, 2018 7:24:40 am PDT #25042 of 28200
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.)
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2018 11:08:13 am PDT #25047 of 28200
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Anyway. Books, woo! Didn't mean to derail.
javachik - Apr 17, 2018 4:01:17 pm PDT #25048 of 28200
Our wings are not tired.
Ha! I think I am just a private person who doesn't want 50,000 strangers watching what to me is an intimate moment. I guess if someone proposed to me in Florida at the Marlins' ballpark I'd be okay (hahah inside baseball people joke).
I also loathe the kiss cam. Ewwwwwww. I usually am able to time my beer purchases to occur at that time.
Psssst it's Carlos who helps the girl out of her predicament. I crushed hard on Carlos in The Wedding Date.
Dana - May 11, 2018 2:37:49 pm PDT #25049 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Big ebook sale in many genres:
This is the mysteries list, and there are links to the others not too far down the page.
The mysteries list has a few Ellis Peters standalones, and I always love her. Make sure to click continue at the bottom of the first page. There's also some Patricia Wentworth, if you like generally relaxing mysteries in mid-century England.
The fantasy list has some Barbara Hambly, including Bride of the Rat God, which is a fun standalone that takes place in the early days of Hollywood in the 1920s; and the two sequels to Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede.
I'm on page 4 of the mysteries one and I have no idea where the end is.
Toddson - May 15, 2018 12:20:49 pm PDT #25050 of 28200
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
sigh ... Tom Wolfe has died
sumi - May 22, 2018 1:29:11 pm PDT #25051 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
Did you guys know that Pearl S. Buck has a short story called "The Golden Bowl"?
I didn't - was quite confused when our catalog didn't recognize the serial number for the James novel but when I did a title search pulled up a collection of Buck's stories.
Why was the James not recognized? I guess that it was a "long overdue" book that somehow just got reshelved.