Boy, this author, Fran Wilde, who was just recommended by my Book Bub email this morning looks interesting!
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
Connie Neil - Oct 31, 2018 7:36:47 am PDT #25192 of 28197
brillig
EpicTangent - Oct 31, 2018 7:54:32 am PDT #25193 of 28197
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
*Runs to Deleted folder where she sent her Bookbub email this morning without looking at it because it's such a hectic day*
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2018 9:43:31 am PDT #25194 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
wait what
Connie Neil - Oct 31, 2018 9:58:33 am PDT #25195 of 28197
brillig
Fran was listed in my email of recommended authors from Book Bub.
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2018 10:15:38 am PDT #25196 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
That's really cool - will let her know!
javachik - Nov 01, 2018 10:26:06 pm PDT #25197 of 28197
Our wings are not tired.
LOL!
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2018 12:33:23 pm PDT #25198 of 28197
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Ya know, without her glasses, she looks just like... Nah, couldn't be.
sj - Nov 03, 2018 5:35:05 am PDT #25199 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm at my library bookstore for the next hour and a half if anyyis looking for a book or DVD.
Gris - Nov 04, 2018 1:37:11 am PDT #25200 of 28197
Hey. New board.
I am wondering, now that I'm 12 books over 10 years or so in, if a reread of the Toby Daye books from the beginning would be rewarding. Has anybody read a bunch of them in a row? Do they hold up to the binge treatment?
meara - Nov 04, 2018 7:55:47 am PST #25201 of 28197
I read them all in a row, though I can't compare to reading them slowly? I'd say it highlights both some of the repetitiveness, but also that there's a pretty big change from the first book or two to the next few—they get much better, I thought? Not sure about the last couple because I'm some ways I feel like the issue with so many books that involve magic or whatever, where the hero or heroine keeps having to get implausibly better or make more powerful friends and have more powerful enemies/raise the stakes/etc, which kind of irks me sometimes? But all that said, I think I only picked them up last fall, read them all in a row, and do have the latest one on hold at the library.