*Runs to Deleted folder where she sent her Bookbub email this morning without looking at it because it's such a hectic day*
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."
wait what
Fran was listed in my email of recommended authors from Book Bub.
That's really cool - will let her know!
LOL!
Ya know, without her glasses, she looks just like... Nah, couldn't be.
I'm at my library bookstore for the next hour and a half if anyyis looking for a book or DVD.
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?
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.
There's a pretty big change from the first book or two to the next few—they get much better, I thought?
Absolutely agree! I had a hard time getting through the first two, but I adore the series from book three on. She's such a prolific author, and it's really clear how much her writing improved from those earliest books to the later ones.