I've given up on Consider Phlebas
I managed to finish it, but it turned me off Banks forever.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
DXMachina - Feb 05, 2019 1:22:48 pm PST #25310 of 28197
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
hippocampus - Feb 05, 2019 1:52:34 pm PST #25311 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
cough i don't know this for reasons but authors who write books like the Goblin Emperor would probably be delighted to hear of the love by means electronic or otherwise. (she is amazing and that book is amazing)
hippocampus - Feb 05, 2019 1:53:21 pm PST #25312 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
also peeking back in here to see how lit this channel is made me so happy
hippocampus - Feb 05, 2019 1:54:34 pm PST #25313 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
also for T. Kingfisher fans, my favorite from last year, simply for the first line but also everything that follows this: [link]
sj - Feb 05, 2019 2:21:03 pm PST #25314 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Adding Goblin Emperor to my list.
meara - Feb 05, 2019 2:47:17 pm PST #25315 of 28197
LOL--hippocampus, somehow I don't think I had ever googled the author of the Goblin Emperor, so I knew it was a pseudonym for someone, but not who (but now that I googled her it's in her Wikipedia). I don't think I've ever read her other stuff, is it similar at all?
-t - Feb 05, 2019 3:26:30 pm PST #25316 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The gnoles are awesome, yes to more of them! T. Kingfisher in general is good times.
hippocampus - Feb 05, 2019 3:29:55 pm PST #25317 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
-- Meara she co-wrote one of my favorite space opera short stories of all time. "Boojum". [link] Goblin Emperor has a special place in my heart and I am so very much in favor of more there.
Calli - Feb 05, 2019 3:44:37 pm PST #25318 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ursula Vernon (T. Kingfisher) has a new book coming out later this year, The Twisted Ones. [link]
I'm looking forward to it.
Dana - Feb 05, 2019 3:46:48 pm PST #25319 of 28197
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
As someone mentioned above, I would have enjoyed The Goblin Emperor a lot more if I'd known there was a glossary of names and places in the back of the book.