I have to read 23 more books by the end of the year to reach my reading goal.
Yeah, I read too many 500+ page novels and kind of blew my goal. No real regrets!
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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."
Laura - Nov 10, 2019 11:02:53 am PST #25528 of 28195
Our wings are not tired.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 10, 2019 12:24:22 pm PST #25529 of 28195
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My embarrassment is that I somehow surpassed my goal and read 237 books this year. I kept saying I could tell how depressed I was by how many books I read! I am now trying to read some more challenging material.
hippocampus - Nov 10, 2019 4:42:04 pm PST #25530 of 28195
not your mom's socks.
shamefaced flyby with waving
I loved 10k Doors of January, I'm struggling with Starless Sea and I think it's because I'm trying to novel and read, and I really liked a book that people are hating (9th House) -- weird.
I miss you all a lot.
sj - Nov 10, 2019 5:28:08 pm PST #25531 of 28195
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
People are hating 9th House? I haven't started it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
Pix - Nov 10, 2019 6:02:01 pm PST #25532 of 28195
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I finished Starless Sea. I liked it, but I didn't love it. Too many threads for me to follow, I think. Ten Thousand Doors of January is still definitely my favorite.
Similarly, I liked Gideon the Ninth but didn't love it (definitely didn't hate it — I'd heard nothing but raves before I read it). I like my books with a little more exposition.
Atropa - Nov 10, 2019 6:54:58 pm PST #25533 of 28195
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Starless Sea doesn't trump The Night Circus for me, but then the only way The Night Circus could have been more aimed at me was if it had vampires.
Gris - Nov 11, 2019 12:58:50 am PST #25534 of 28195
Hey. New board.
I'm reading Night Circus right now. So far I'm disappointed with the lack of Circus.
Calli - Nov 11, 2019 4:36:52 am PST #25535 of 28195
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just started 10k Doors. So far I'm liking it a lot.
-t - Nov 12, 2019 6:51:36 am PST #25536 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have started 10k doors. Reading it and Starless Sea close together is making me very thinky, so that's nice
ETA and apparently the new Expanse novella was released early? I don't think my brain can handle switching gears to that right now...
Kat - Nov 12, 2019 11:06:15 am PST #25537 of 28195
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Finished Starless Sea and it felt.... bloated. It's no Night Circus for sure.
I loved 10k Doors of January, I'm struggling with Starless Sea and I think it's because I'm trying to novel and read, and I really liked a book that people are hating (9th House) -- weird.
I didn't love Ninth House for 2/3rds of the book, but the last 1/3rd got me and I really enjoyed it. And then the same thing happend with Less which I actively disliked until the final 15% and its mediocrity was broken by a delightul ending.