The new murderbot is next on my list! I'm so excited.
Yeah, "Priory" is ... not a light read.
I loved Rihannsu as a young teenager, I should go back to them again!
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'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."
esse - May 09, 2020 5:13:47 pm PDT #25814 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Katerina Bee - May 09, 2020 8:11:45 pm PDT #25815 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
I quite liked Priory of the Orange Tree. I knew I could finish it but waited for paperback due to weight. I'd recommend it for having strong female characters and presenting two tender, unexpected gay love stories.
-t - May 10, 2020 4:55:48 am PDT #25816 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
E-book, which is why I apparently had no idea how long it was when I started it. I just finished Part I, so a lot still to go and I still have very little idea what is actually going on - I mean, I'm following the plot, I think, but there are a lot of secrets and mysteries
Pix - May 10, 2020 8:25:57 am PDT #25817 of 28176
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I also just read and loved the latest murderbot! I liked Priory, but I didn't love it for some reason.
Consuela - May 10, 2020 4:41:32 pm PDT #25818 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Currently reading The 10,000 doors of January, which is really good and I recommend.
-t - May 10, 2020 4:49:16 pm PDT #25819 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that's so good!
meara - May 10, 2020 5:59:29 pm PDT #25820 of 28176
I want to read murderbot but haven't bought it yet. I got a few pages into the 10,000 doors the other day but couldn't stick to it and ended up pulling out Doomsday Book and re-reading that this weekend. So interesting given the times now.
DebetEsse - May 10, 2020 10:16:43 pm PDT #25821 of 28176
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I read January a couple months ago. Yes, very good book, from a subgenre that's generated a number of good books.
It was one of the books that I had a little trouble with, as I have a hard time enjoying books with harm or threat of harm to children or animals than I did before I had the gumball. There was one of the Hugo nominees that I bounced off HARD because of that, and another that I looked at the warnings and was like "nah."
Pix - May 11, 2020 12:03:45 am PDT #25822 of 28176
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
January was my absolute favorite book of 2019.
juliana - May 11, 2020 8:10:53 am PDT #25823 of 28176
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I started Priory, but couldn't focus enough to get into it. I did inhale all of the Murderbot novellas, which was awesome. (I had bounced off of the Raksura books pretty hard, so I took longer than I should have getting into Murderbot.)
I just finished The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which is very good, and I think I really didn't like it. The Masquerade and the effects on people as described is just too... plausible, I guess? And therefore way too disturbing. It sat wrong for a few days afterwards.
I also started Hieroglyphs: The Celestial Conspiracies, which I'm thoroughly enjoying.