Custard Protocol PSA: Reticence is out. I haven't finished it yet but so far it is delightful.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
-t - Aug 07, 2019 12:47:23 pm PDT #25437 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Aug 07, 2019 3:53:58 pm PDT #25438 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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!
aurelia - Aug 08, 2019 6:20:23 pm PDT #25439 of 28197
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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.
Shir - Aug 18, 2019 11:53:08 am PDT #25440 of 28197
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
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]
meara - Aug 20, 2019 10:00:49 am PDT #25441 of 28197
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!
Jesse - Aug 20, 2019 12:07:01 pm PDT #25442 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh god, I'm just reading it now, and those boys are literally killing me.
Steph L. - Aug 20, 2019 1:21:39 pm PDT #25443 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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!
Amy - Aug 20, 2019 4:57:52 pm PDT #25444 of 28197
Because books.
I want to read that, too! But I'm still in Laura Lippman world, and I can't get enough.
Consuela - Aug 20, 2019 8:16:08 pm PDT #25445 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2019 6:03:07 am PDT #25446 of 28197
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, I just petered out after awhile. I thought it was a decent trilogy (maybe not brilliantly written, but entertaining) that got way, way out of hand. But, yeah, around book 4 or 5 it got so repetitive and slow and I realized that every female character was basically the same person.