Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'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."


sj - Nov 05, 2019 8:04:37 am PST #25511 of 28611
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'd pre-ordered it, forgot its release date and then, one day, it was there!

I love when that happens!


Kat - Nov 05, 2019 4:10:28 pm PST #25512 of 28611
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I just got Starless Sea from the library this AM and I'm about 25% of the way through.


sj - Nov 05, 2019 4:31:42 pm PST #25513 of 28611
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

After I posted in here my signed copy of The Starless Sea arrived with a bonus keychain! I may try to start it tonight.


Pix - Nov 05, 2019 5:58:12 pm PST #25514 of 28611
The status is NOT quo.

I am also about 25% through Starless Sea!


Kat - Nov 05, 2019 6:28:25 pm PST #25515 of 28611
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Pix: twins!!


Atropa - Nov 06, 2019 10:35:12 am PST #25516 of 28611
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Starless Sea is SO GOOD. It's a delight from beginning to end.


Consuela - Nov 06, 2019 3:33:58 pm PST #25517 of 28611
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I binged through Emma Newman's Split World series I the last week. It was really well done and creative, and ended better than I feared. Good stuff.


Pix - Nov 06, 2019 4:50:53 pm PST #25518 of 28611
The status is NOT quo.

I like Starless Sea a lot so far, but The Ten Thousand Doors of January has some striking similarities, and I think it's better. So read both!


-t - Nov 06, 2019 5:00:19 pm PST #25519 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, ok, I will!

I am finding I need to keep pausing The Starless Sea to, I don't know, let it sink in. This may take a while.


-t - Nov 07, 2019 2:38:24 pm PST #25520 of 28611
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I went to Starbucks on the way home to sit for a little while, eat a croissant, drink Earl Grey it's soy milk honey & vanilla, and read another chapter of The Starless Sea. That was delightful