Sunburn is so great -- it's a noir at the beach, basically.
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."
Custard Protocol PSA: Reticence is out. I haven't finished it yet but so far it is delightful.
Custard Protocol PSA: Reticence is out. I haven't finished it yet but so far it is delightful.
I have it on hold at the library and can't wait for it to come in!
Has anybody else gotten into Serial Box? I've been listening to Dead Air and I swear it's as if Winifred Burkle were the main character in a Gillian Flynn book.
Remember the book I kept mentioning in the past few months, The Heart of the Circle? Shir "Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear." Mar 1, 2019 7:33:33 am PST It's out. [link]
There are plenty of interviews out there, but Keren wrote about the background of writing The Heart of the Circle here: [link]
Y'all, how did it not occur to me until now that there must be Red White and Royal Blue fanfic?? I mean, partly because the book itself satisfied so many of my hopes and dreams, it was itself kind of like fanfic. But there are 73 stories on AO3! Time to start reading!
Oh god, I'm just reading it now, and those boys are literally killing me.
If I can get through my pile from the library (which is difficult because I keep reading Good Omens fanfic instead), my next book is Red White and Royal Blue. It looks so good!
I want to read that, too! But I'm still in Laura Lippman world, and I can't get enough.
Is it mean of me to be entertained by the kerfuffle in the Wheel of Time fandom about mixed-race casting? They're all, "oh the text is being violated by the SJWs!" and I can't help snickering because that text was... so... bad. Even a terrible tv adaptation could only be an improvement.
... YBMV. I gave up after 5 books or so when I realized that the story was moving ever slower, and eventually would result in a 1200-page book that covered a single hour of story.