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Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?
Anya ,'Touched'
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."
hippocampus - Oct 31, 2018 9:43:31 am PDT #25194 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
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.
Pix - Nov 04, 2018 8:48:41 am PST #25202 of 28197
The status is NOT quo.
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.
sumi - Nov 14, 2018 5:35:26 am PST #25203 of 28197
Art Crawl!!!
I just finished The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, and I really enjoyed it. The prose was beautiful, and I enjoyed the character development.
I am currently reading Melmoth by the same author and it is nicely creepy.
Gris: how cool that you are living in Brazil!!
I also loved the Chronicles of Prydain. So many characters that I loved in those books.
My library's "Off the Beaten Path" book club read Guards! Guards! this month. So much fun. And we discussed the coming BBCA Night Watch series.
One of my morning tasks at the library is to check in the overnight bookdrop books and one of them was Lethal White and I was the next person on the hold list!! (I only know of "Lethal White" as a genetic disorder in Quarter Horses but I am guessing that is not what the title refers to.)
I also just picked up Shadow of the Fox by Julile Kagawa and it is good so far.