You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.

Fred ,'Life of the Party'


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."


Toddson - Apr 15, 2019 12:06:55 pm PDT #25370 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm currently reading Mary Robinette Kowal's "Ghost Talkers" ... and I bring it up here because early on she introduces a character called Brigadier-General Lethbridge-Stewart.


Toddson - Apr 16, 2019 8:25:04 am PDT #25371 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

And it seems that Gene Wolfe has died ... sigh ....


Jessica - May 03, 2019 5:36:26 am PDT #25372 of 28197
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I feel like we predicted this one.

Brontësaurus Park


Matt the Bruins fan - May 03, 2019 5:51:04 am PDT #25373 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

There are literal tears streaming down my cheeks from suppressing a laughing fit over the scene with Nedry!


Kate P. - May 03, 2019 4:07:03 pm PDT #25374 of 28197
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

That was comedy GOLD.


dcp - May 07, 2019 3:13:07 pm PDT #25375 of 28197
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I enjoyed these.

"The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and Philosophy" [link]

"The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett vs. Logic" [link]


DXMachina - May 08, 2019 8:02:32 am PDT #25376 of 28197
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I used to use Sir Terry's original of that very first line in the philosophy link as a tagline here, to wit...

Make a man a fire and it'll keep him warm all night, but light a man afire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.


Shir - May 22, 2019 11:49:48 am PDT #25377 of 28197
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

YOU GUYS.

First three chapters of The Heart of the Circle are available here: [link]

Go and read! (I'm so excited we'll be able to talk about it here).


Laura - May 27, 2019 7:03:58 am PDT #25378 of 28197
Our wings are not tired.

So, I joined a Monthly Book Club group on FB, maybe to be more random about what I choose to read. I miss the F2F book clubs I have participated in previously. None of the June books were on my To Read list, so looking forward to seeing what happens.

The picks for June: Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney, Bed and Breakfast and Murder by Patti Larsen, Genesis Girl by Jennifer Bardsley, and The Ghost Writer by Alessandra Torre

First I need to finish The Bear and the Nightingale, which I just started.


Katerina Bee - May 27, 2019 7:23:05 am PDT #25379 of 28197
Herding cats for fun

I liked all three volumes of that trilogy! Vasya is my kind of heroine.