I highly recommend that book.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'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."
sj - Mar 17, 2020 7:10:23 am PDT #25684 of 28195
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
hippocampus - Mar 17, 2020 7:53:47 am PDT #25685 of 28195
not your mom's socks.
co-signed on the book rec. Nora's wonderful smart.
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2020 11:52:36 am PDT #25686 of 28195
Now tagless for your comfort.
A readers' advisory consultant at work told us that when the world is a garbage fire, two genres of books increase in readership: romance and dystopian fiction.
One, because people want to lose themselves in happy endings, the other, because they want to know it could be worse.
I just got my second $20 amazon gift card for listening to my 3rd romance novel on audible this month.
-t - Mar 17, 2020 11:55:39 am PDT #25687 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm finding I gravitate toward murder mysteries lately, some good old-fashioned order-being-established-after-chaos
meara - Mar 17, 2020 12:26:01 pm PDT #25688 of 28195
Yes I'm all about escapist romance and mysteries where the bad guy is caught and all is well in the end!
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2020 12:28:46 pm PDT #25689 of 28195
Now tagless for your comfort.
I haven't been a big mystery reader, but I found a series about a cop in Honolulu who is trying to solve a murder and comes out as gay. The whole series is kind of fun. It's only a little sexy and the mysteries aren't too difficult to figure out but I'm on the fourth book in the series so I like it.
Laura - Mar 17, 2020 12:45:09 pm PDT #25690 of 28195
Our wings are not tired.
I'm nearly finished the first of the Dresden Files series. I don't know what I was expecting, but I am finding it amusing. A plus for me is it having a bunch in the series.
bennett - Mar 17, 2020 12:47:18 pm PDT #25691 of 28195
I had been reading mysteries for the last couple of years to cope with the general mess the world is in. Now I'm reading Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" and a history of the Spanish Influenza. I find it comforting to know that everything could be way worse.
-t - Mar 17, 2020 12:55:28 pm PDT #25692 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What's the series, Cash? Sounds good
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2020 12:57:46 pm PDT #25693 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm nearly finished the first of the Dresden Files series. I don't know what I was expecting, but I am finding it amusing. A plus for me is it having a bunch in the series.
Jim Butcher has some writing tics that he never loses throughout the series, but I think the Harry Dresden books start to get really good about book 4 or 5.