Just finished The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal, and I enjoyed it immensely. It's basically the novel I wanted to write (or read) after I heard about the Mercury 13.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Consuela - Aug 12, 2018 6:49:25 pm PDT #25131 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Pix - Aug 12, 2018 8:50:07 pm PDT #25132 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Yes! I read that recently, too. So good!
EpicTangent - Aug 13, 2018 7:13:32 am PDT #25133 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I thought of Naveen Andrews and I bet he would be very pretty in eyeliner and rhinestones so I think he's my choice.
I have zero familiarity with the book in question, but I just felt the need to add my vote: Yes to Naveen Andrews in eyeliner & rhinestones!
Toddson - Aug 13, 2018 8:41:25 am PDT #25134 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
re Naveen Andrews: remember Robert!
-t - Aug 13, 2018 9:38:15 am PDT #25135 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was ready to cry when Oort found the costumes they had grown. Robert!
smonster - Aug 14, 2018 8:05:06 am PDT #25136 of 28344
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I am reading The Calculating Stars right now and it is indeed FG.
sj - Aug 14, 2018 5:48:50 pm PDT #25137 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm reading Girl Waits with Gun, which I think I first heard about here. It's excellent.
Toddson - Aug 15, 2018 8:11:56 am PDT #25138 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I got that but it wasn't as good as I expected ... maybe I need to go back to it and try again. There is a sequel out, if you're interested.
sumi - Aug 16, 2018 1:20:50 pm PDT #25139 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
I think that there are a couple of sequels out now.
ETA: the 4th book is out now or very shortly.
juliana - Aug 19, 2018 5:54:42 am PDT #25140 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I am halfway through Space Opera now, and I'm enjoying it immensely.
My mom saw Gretchen Carlson speak on PBS the other day and sent me her latest book, Be Fierce, because I am also a fierce woman (she says). My mom has never watched Fox News and really isn't up to date on much of anything. I'm womanfully not telling her exactly what I think of Gretchen Carlson or the mere existence of the book, of which I don't have the spoons to read.