Buffistas

Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!

'Potential'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

Discussion Threads

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."

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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.

-t - Mar 18, 2020 3:31:45 pm PDT #25714 of 28195

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I love all her spinoff novellas!

Consuela - Mar 18, 2020 8:27:35 pm PDT #25715 of 28195

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

A new Goblin Emperor book? Oh happy day, calloo callay!

Cashmere - Mar 19, 2020 4:34:26 am PDT #25716 of 28195

Now tagless for your comfort.

My boss love the Parasol Protectorate series.

I got some new manga and I'm powering through a YA biography of Bonnie & Clyde which is fascinating.

And of course, trying out new gay romance audio books. Joel Leslie as narrator is my woobie.

Atropa - Mar 19, 2020 5:08:06 pm PDT #25717 of 28195

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Parasol Protectorate novels, because Ivy Hisselpenny is THE BEST.

(Dunno why I bounced off the tie-in YA novels, but the first didn't grab me and I haven't gotten around to the others.)

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