Currently reading The 10,000 doors of January, which is really good and I recommend.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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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."
Consuela - May 10, 2020 4:41:32 pm PDT #25818 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-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.
-t - May 11, 2020 8:56:17 am PDT #25824 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I see what you mean about Baru Cormorant, juliana. I read it a while back and don't remember specifics, alas, but I do recall having a complex reaction to it. I did read the sequel, not sure if I will read the third one when it comes out.
Kate P. - May 11, 2020 1:29:33 pm PDT #25825 of 28176
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I started The Fifth Season and got a good way into it before the relentless death (in particular, the death of a child, which happens very close to the beginning of the book) and grief and catastrophe was just too much for me. I keep thinking I'd like to give it another try, but I'm... unlikely... to be ready and willing to subject myself to that anytime soon.
Dana - May 11, 2020 1:45:17 pm PDT #25826 of 28176
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, the series doesn't really get less grim.
Consuela - May 11, 2020 7:52:52 pm PDT #25827 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Indeed.