Margaret Atwood is coming out with a Handmaid's Tale sequel.
There's also a Handmaid's Tale graphic novel coming out, by an artist I like very much.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
Tom Scola - Nov 28, 2018 6:09:49 am PST #25208 of 28197
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
-t - Nov 28, 2018 6:51:29 pm PST #25209 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not sure how to feel about that. The sequel, I mean. Graphic novel sounds swell.
But I came here to talk about Fire and Blood. I just got to a passage that includes "Kermit Tully was...'green as summer grass'....His brother Oscar ... was still greener" and I had to tell someone: I see what you did there GRRM
Jessica - Nov 29, 2018 4:15:23 am PST #25210 of 28197
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I see what you did there GRRM
Hey, it's not easy.
-t - Nov 29, 2018 4:39:49 am PST #25211 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I got suspicious with their father Elmo and his grandfather Grover
DebetEsse - Nov 29, 2018 8:28:27 pm PST #25212 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That's been canon since the World book. I know because I had to look it up because the tags on Ao3 seemed...unlikely
-t - Nov 29, 2018 9:00:12 pm PST #25213 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
World book?
DebetEsse - Nov 29, 2018 9:03:59 pm PST #25214 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
World of Ice and Fire. It's an in-universe reference book, so there's some unreliable narrator stuff, but it has family trees for everyone (which we have no reason to think are inaccurate apart from Known Lies About Parentage).
It's also a lovely book, apart from the standard issue of pretty much all the women looking like models.
-t - Nov 29, 2018 9:12:20 pm PST #25215 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ah, I passed on that one. I almost passed on this one, but I'm enjoying the mock-historiography a lot.
sj - Dec 01, 2018 5:21:06 am PST #25216 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm at the library bookstore for the next hour and a half if anyone is looking for Holiday gifts cheap or something for themselves.
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 6:52:43 am PST #25217 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I recently finished T. Kingfisher's "Clockwork Boys" (enjoyed it a lot). I read the acknowledgements section at the end and one of the things she mentions is all the games with gloomy paladins - they infuriated her and gave her some inspiration for the paladin in this book. Her comment about this? Inspiration knocks now and again, but spite bangs on the door all year long.