January was my absolute favorite book of 2019.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Pix - May 11, 2020 12:03:45 am PDT #25822 of 28176
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
esse - May 12, 2020 7:39:08 pm PDT #25828 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Jemisin is relentless in conveying her concept of the world. I couldn't read it straight through; I had to read a bit at a time, and it did get more challenging to come back to it the grimmer it got.
I'm reading "Empress" which is a biography of the Nar Jahal, who for several years was the ruler of Mughal India following the death of her husband, the Emperor. The only female ruler -- she's amazing and largely unknown to the West.
Jessica - May 13, 2020 6:15:28 am PDT #25829 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This is my obligatory plug for the Broken Earth trilogy on audio - Robin Miles does phenomenal work with the 2nd-person narration.
But yeah, it's not a *comforting* read, and it doesn't get cheerier as the series goes on.
Dana - May 13, 2020 8:32:20 am PDT #25830 of 28176
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
God, I'm not sure I could listen to it, rather than read it.
Consuela - May 13, 2020 9:19:04 am PDT #25831 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have her new one, I'm hoping it's more cheerful.