You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!

Spike ,'Smile Time'


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 13, 2020 5:10:25 pm PDT #25845 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Alllll the fanfic. So comforting. So soothing.


askye - May 14, 2020 3:32:25 am PDT #25846 of 28176
Thrive to spite them

I am just plowing away at fanfic. I keep staying in my comfort categories but that is all I'm reading.

Although I keep stumbling on stories that I didn't check to see if they were finished and getting really into something that hasn't been updated in years.


Jessica - May 14, 2020 5:29:14 am PDT #25847 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Romance novels and fanfic are essential services.


Amy - May 14, 2020 5:37:15 am PDT #25848 of 28176
Because books.

I've been reading Cat Sebastian and delving into some historical romance I've never tried. I want to get Slippery Creatures, but I still have a bunch of KJ Charles I haven't read yet. I think I'm afraid I won't love any as much as I loved the Society of Gentlemen series.

I also need to get back to Tyack and Frain!


Matt the Bruins fan - May 14, 2020 7:13:40 am PDT #25849 of 28176
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I think I need to dive back into fanfic. I stalled halfway through *The Ruins* and haven't felt like starting up any new novels until I finish that one.


Jessica - May 14, 2020 7:26:00 am PDT #25850 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think I'm afraid I won't love any as much as I loved the Society of Gentlemen series.

This is a valid concern.


Amy - May 14, 2020 7:30:35 am PDT #25851 of 28176
Because books.

It was my intro to KJ Charles, and it couldn't have been more perfect. I have the first Sins of the Cities book, and the first Magpie book, I think. (Kindle sales for $1.99 are dangerous, because I forget what I impulse buy. Which is a lot.)

My sad for right now is I'm having trouble with Cat Sebastian's latest, A Delicate Deception. I like Amelia and Sydney but it's just ... sort of meandering without a clear focus. And Sydney's background could have been better outlined -- who's related to who, and who's dead, and who's so and so's father, and who used to be a lover. It's all a little confusing. Or it could be that I have no attention span right now.


Cashmere - May 14, 2020 8:05:59 am PDT #25852 of 28176
Now tagless for your comfort.

I have a pile of books from the library glaring balefully at me, and yet I am re-reading fanfic like it's my second job.

Ignore those library books. They'll still be there.

I also need to get back to Tyack and Frain!

Harper Fox is releasing the latest in installments on Patreon. OMG!

I've been reading Cat Sebastian and delving into some historical romance I've never tried. I want to get Slippery Creatures, but I still have a bunch of KJ Charles I haven't read yet. I think I'm afraid I won't love any as much as I loved the Society of Gentlemen series.

So much good there.

I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Not a romance, but good lord, it's a juicy, wordalicious fantasy take on Holmes and Watson that blew me away.


-t - May 14, 2020 8:06:12 am PDT #25853 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Kindle sales for $1.99 are dangerous, because I forget what I impulse buy. Which is a lot.

That is extremely true for me, too.

I'm trying really hard to read some of my electronic TBR pile. I've started a few and been kinda meh on them but didn't want to get rid of them because sometimes lately reading something I don't care anything at all about is exactly what I want to do...


-t - May 14, 2020 8:07:18 am PDT #25854 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter is a lot of fun!