I tend to gravitate toward the dystopian. I started re-reading Station Eleven but I decided I should finish The Secret History since I'm already halfway through and because someone from work loaned it to me.
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
aurelia - Mar 17, 2020 3:36:35 pm PDT #25704 of 28195
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Amy - Mar 17, 2020 4:22:02 pm PDT #25705 of 28195
Because books.
Yeah, I am really tempted to dip into The Stand right now.
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2020 4:47:04 pm PDT #25706 of 28195
Now tagless for your comfort.
What's the series, Cash? Sounds good
-t, it's the Mahu series by Neil Plakcy.
I have been recommending The Doomsday Book to people who want a pandemic read.
-t - Mar 17, 2020 5:07:37 pm PDT #25707 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks!
Whoa, there's a lot of them. Nice.
Consuela - Mar 17, 2020 6:37:24 pm PDT #25708 of 28195
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For those who want the dystopia, Wanderers by Chuck Wendig is very much The Stand but now, and with an AI in the mix. It's all a bit too on-the-nose politically for me, but it really kept my attention when I read it last month.
I have been reading the Maisie Dobbs mysteries, but my library only has, like, every other one, which is annoying.
And I just yesterday finished a reread of The Goblin Emperor and I wish to hell there was a sequel or something. Love that book so much. And yeah, I know Addison/Monette has another book coming out, but I'm worried it'll be more like the Doctrine of Labyrinths than TGE, and I didn't really like DOL.
Fred Pete - Mar 18, 2020 3:11:23 am PDT #25709 of 28195
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'll have to see if I can dig out my copy of Forever Amber. Historical romance AND the plague of 1666 -- the perfect book for times like this!
hippocampus - Mar 18, 2020 4:52:11 am PDT #25710 of 28195
not your mom's socks.
Wanderers is so good.
We teach The Stand as a first-read/first-year MFA genre fiction book, and while that one isn't my fave, it's excellent for talking about various genre elements and tools.
Consuela - a sequel is coming for GE, plus I've read the new book and it's very good.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2020 4:54:53 am PDT #25711 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Oh, yay - I loved the Goblin Emperor ... I looked at some of her other e-books, but they just didn't sound like what I wanted. Also, I have so many backed up ... Smart Bitches Trashy Books has a daily e-books on sale (which is where I spotted the Jemison) and, well, I'm weak.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2020 8:44:00 am PDT #25712 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Today, from Smart Bitches, Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep is on sale for $2.99. See here. This is the second of her "mermaid" books.
Calli - Mar 18, 2020 2:54:57 pm PDT #25713 of 28195
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've been rereading Gail Carrieager's Parasol Protectorate series. And a lot of fanfic. I just don't have the mental energy to meet a lot of new (fictional) people right now.